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Command-line interface for Zotero - search your Zotero library, add/edit notes, read attachments, and manage bibliographic references from the terminal.

Not recommendedcritical or high security findings · low grade D
modbender/skill-library-mcp Agent Skills author: modbender MIT 13 files · 4 scripts body ≈ 1 052 tokens Open the sourcegithub.com↗ analyzed 2 d ago

Command-line interface for Zotero - search your Zotero library, add/edit notes, read attachments, and manage bibliographic references from the terminal.

As a process C 51/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions

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Technical rating
D
54/100
safety, quality, tests
Safety 60%
41
Quality 40%
74
Run on models
none yet
Process rating
C
51/100
Has gaps
Result and completion w 14
0
Inputs and preconditions w 11
0
Progress reporting w 2
0
the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten

What is at stake

The skill contains fragments that, in the wrong hands, cost money or data. Below: what the installer risks and what the author should do.

Dangerous commands
If you install

The skill contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.

For the author

Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.

How to improve

  1. Address the high-severity findings: each costs 18 safety points. If one is a false positive, add the rule id to guard.allow in spec.yaml.
  2. Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
For the model run — optional
  • Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
  • A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.

Guard findings · 10

  • high Dangerous commands cmd-pipe-to-shell INSTALL.md:481
    Downloads and executes remote code from an unrecognised host (pipe to shell)
    curl https://pyenv.run | bash
Medium and low: 9
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-shell-rc INSTALL.md:161
    Writes to a shell startup file
    echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-privilege INSTALL.md:182
    Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions
    sudo python3 -m pip install --break-system-packages zotero-cli
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-shell-rc INSTALL.md:298
    Writes to a shell startup file
    echo 'export VISUAL=nano' >> ~/.bashrc
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-shell-rc INSTALL.md:302
    Writes to a shell startup file
    echo 'export VISUAL=nano' >> ~/.zshrc
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-privilege INSTALL.md:391
    Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions
    sudo python3 -m pip install --break-system-packages zotero-cli
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-shell-rc INSTALL.md:412
    Writes to a shell startup file
    echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-shell-rc scripts/README.md:461
    Writes to a shell startup file
    echo 'export PATH="$HOME/zotero-cli/scripts:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
  • medium Dangerous commands cmd-shell-rc scripts/setup_and_check.sh:218
    Writes to a shell startup file
    echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
  • low Dangerous commands cmd-cron-mention EXAMPLES.md:388
    Mentions editing / listing crontab (test fixture / example file)
    crontab -e
    fixture

Files scanned: 13. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

  • warning description-no-when description does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")
  • note frontmatter-key unknown frontmatter key "homepage"

Process rating: all ten parameters 51/100

  • 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
  • 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
  • 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
  • 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
  • 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
  • 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash) that frontmatter does not declare
  • 100Steps. 4 steps
  • 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
  • 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1052 tokens
  • 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
  • low 10 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill

Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.

Quality signals

  • +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
  • +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
  • +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
  • +1No license
  • +2Single-language instructions
  • +3Description length 152: enough signal without eating the budget
  • +4Structure: 16 headings
  • +3Step-by-step instructions: 4 items
  • +4Has examples (13 code blocks)
  • +3All 6 scripts are documented

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 74.