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 →
by tamdogood · Claude Skill · ★ 145
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Builder's Essential Skills A considered collection of reusable workflows for planning, building, researching, learning, validating, writing, and reviewing with Claude Code and Codex. Install · Pick a skill · Create a skill Install Install with the skills.sh CLI: Install one skill from the collection: The skills.sh page for this repository is skills.sh/tamdogood/skills. It appears after the repository has been installed through the CLI and the skills.sh cache refreshes. You can also use the bundled npm installer. Install every skill for your user account: Install into the repository you are currently in: Install only one skill: bash npx
| Stars | 145 |
| Forks | 4 |
| Language | Python |
| Category | Claude Skill |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 68.2871879707342/100 |
| Last Updated | 2026-08-16 |
| Created | 2026-07-11 |
| Platforms | claude-code, codex, python |
| Est. Tokens | ~16k |
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builder-essential-skills is A repository for skills that are essential to my daily work. It is categorized as a Claude Skill with 145 GitHub stars.
builder-essential-skills is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as agent, ai, ai-agents.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the builder-essential-skills GitHub repository at github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills. The project has 145 stars and 4 forks, indicating an active community.
builder-essential-skills is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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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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