Skills/npm/howitworks-cli

howitworks-cli@0.4.1

VERIFIED

Publisher claims: "Draw how a repository works: an interactive architecture diagram with walkthroughs and a live call simulator, plus ARCHITECTURE.md for engineers and AI assistants." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry npm (MCP server)Publisher koppulapr2230 · joined 7 days agoInstalls 517Last detonated 7d ago
$claude mcp add howitworks-cli -- npx -y howitworks-cli
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KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (1 scenario) on 2026-10-27 and scored it 87/100 (Verified). It did what it claims and nothing else we could detect: no undeclared network egress, no credential reads, no persistent instruction writes. Summary: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Behavior trace

Honeypot run · 0 s · 1 scenarios · 0 deviations
t+CategoryObserved action
0.0sprocessno install scripts in bundle
0.0sprocessscript backend runs setup only
0.0sprocessscript backend runs setup only

Static findings

HIGH
Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesskills/howitworks/SKILL.md:73 · Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesFix: Remove the text that addresses the agent rather than the reader; describe behavior, do not instruct.
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HIGH
Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesREADME.md:462 · Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesFix: Remove the text that addresses the agent rather than the reader; describe behavior, do not instruct.
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HIGH
Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesREADME.md:244 · Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesFix: Remove the text that addresses the agent rather than the reader; describe behavior, do not instruct.
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HIGH
Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesskills/howitworks/scripts/cli.mjs:37 · Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesFix: Remove the text that addresses the agent rather than the reader; describe behavior, do not instruct.
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HIGH
URL with embedded credentialsskills/howitworks/templates/architecture.html:5 · URL with embedded credentials — may be phishing or credential leakingFix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.
AST07
MEDIUM
npx invocation of non-well-known packageskills/howitworks/scripts/cli.mjs:26 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeFix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
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HIGH
Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesskills/howitworks/scripts/lib/extras.mjs:110 · Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesFix: Remove the text that addresses the agent rather than the reader; describe behavior, do not instruct.
AST01