poltergeist: The ghost that keeps your builds fresh - Universal hot reload, file watcher and build automation for any

by steipete · Agent Tool · ★ 448

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How to install poltergeist

brew install steipete/tap/poltergeist
npm install -g @steipete/poltergeist

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 73/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

automationbuildfilewatcher

Quick Facts

Stars448
Forks40
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score73/100
Open Issues7
Last Updated2026-11-02
Created2025-07-29
Platformsnode
Est. Tokens~17k

About poltergeist

# Poltergeist 👻 - The ghost that keeps your builds fresh—universal hot reload & file watcher The ghost that keeps your builds fresh 👻 A universal file watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system Poltergeist is an AI-friendly universal file-watcher that auto-detects any project and rebuilds them as soon as a file has been changed.

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. 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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