Is Simplified Technical English safe?
- Python filesystem read
What to do: Nothing here argues against installing it. Grant the capabilities it lists only if you expect the tool to need them.
Simplified Technical English is an agent skill analyzed by SkillTotal's deterministic static scanner. The scan found no malicious indicators. It can: filesystem read — capabilities are what the code can do, not a verdict on intent. Risk score 0/100 (low).
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Automated static-analysis result. It can contain false positives and false negatives, and is not a claim about the intent of Simplified Technical English's authors. Report a false positive.
Behavioral traits
How this component maps to the CSA agentic threat model. Descriptive — it never affects the risk score.
Findings (1)
The component reads files from disk.
for line in Path(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines():
check_text(Path(f).read_text(encoding="utf-8"), args.mode, report, f, approved)
Why it matters: Usually legitimate, but worth confirming it can't be steered into reading sensitive files.
Fix: Confirm which files are read and that paths cannot be influenced by untrusted input to reach sensitive locations.
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