No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →
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Spider The fastest web crawler and scraper for Rust. spider.cloud · Guides · Docs · Examples · Discord Spider is a concurrency-first crawling engine written in Rust. It str
| Stars | 2,727 |
| Forks | 303 |
| Language | Rust |
| Category | Agent Tool |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 68.9463922956082/100 |
| Open Issues | 1 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-16 |
| Created | 2018-01-07 |
| Platforms | browser, rust |
| Est. Tokens | ~23k |
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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