The publisher performed an authenticated act of publication — proving control of a namespace in the official MCP registry, or appearing in a first-party catalogue an operator curates. That establishes WHO published it. It is not a security finding, and attested artifacts carry Flagged verdicts too.
258 critical findings reported by cisco-skill-scanner, agent-audit-kit, 2 of them in the installed artifact. The composite score alone does not reflect this — read the per-scanner reports below.
This artifact ships from 3 sources and their verdicts differ. The worst is github (Flagged). Installing from a cleaner source does not mean the others are safe — check the source you actually install from. Some sources have no verdict at all; that is not a pass.
github: https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail, 430 findings
Choose your runtime: the CLI writes the mcpServers config entry for that target.
nerlo install --target claude-code -- ksail
Install respects the composite badge: Clean proceeds, Caution prompts for confirmation, and Flagged is refused. Write operations require an API token.
6 of 11 scanners examined this package. The rest do not apply to it — language, ecosystem and packaging decide which analyzers can say anything, and a scanner that cannot examine an artifact reports nothing rather than passing it.
v1.4.0
0 findings · 1.5s
v2.0.11
131 findings · 65.8s
v0.3.26
282 findings · 84.3s
v0.1.0
10 findings · 94.7s
v0.1.0
7 findings · 94.8s
v0.1.0
0 findings · 58.4s
No report in this scan: capslock, govulncheck, osv-scanner, trivy, trivy_image.
1 scan on record. Every scan's full results are retained immutably for 24 months.
| Completed | Composite | Change | Scanners | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2026 | Scan Halted | — | agentshield: completecisco-skill-scanner: completeagent-audit-kit: completenerlo-behavioral: completenerlo-install-instruction: completenerlo-multi-source: complete | rejected |
Findings in files this artifact installs stand as reported; a model re-read the rest and said which ones it believes are false positives. This is a second opinion published beside the evidence, not a correction to it: the per-scanner reports above are unchanged, every dismissed finding is still listed there at its original severity, and the score and the Flagged badge are computed from those raw severities alone. Nothing below moved them.
Out of 430 findings across every scanner that examined this package. 255 of 258 findings rated critical by their scanner were among the dismissals.
Two keys had to turn. The model had to name a reason from a fixed list of six, and a deterministic check of ours — over which files this artifact actually installs — had to independently agree. Anything it could not corroborate is in “not reviewed” above, at full severity.
250 Agent instruction file — The match is in a file that instructs an AI coding agent — a CLAUDE.md or similar. It is documentation of intent, and our own check confirmed it is not part of what gets installed.
Rules: AAK-AGENT-001, AAK-AGENT-002, FILE_MAGIC_MISMATCH · Files: AGENTS.md, /repo/CLAUDE.md · reported by agent-audit-kit, cisco-skill-scanner
33 Test or fixture file — The match is in a test or fixture. Our own check confirmed the file is not part of what gets installed.
Rules: YARA_credential_harvesting_generic, YARA_command_injection_generic, AAK-INDIA-PII-001 and 4 more · Files: /repo/pkg/svc/bootstrap/cloudinit/cloudinit_test.go, /repo/pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/kind/registry_security_test.go, /repo/pkg/cli/cmd/workload/gen/testdata/tls.key and 12 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner, agent-audit-kit
25 Documentation or example — The match is in documentation or sample code, confirmed by our own check to be outside the installed artifact.
Rules: PIPELINE_TAINT_FLOW, opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-install-fetch-raw-then-run, opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-install-pipe-to-shell and 7 more · Files: /repo/docs/src/content/docs/integrations/mirrord.mdx, /repo/.github/actions/setup-desktop-build/action.yml, /repo/docs/src/content/docs/guides/pr-preview-clusters.mdx and 12 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner, nerlo-install-instruction, agent-audit-kit
1 CI or editor configuration — The match is in build, CI or editor configuration, confirmed by our own check to be outside the installed artifact.
Rules: AAK-MARKETPLACE-001 · Files: .github/plugin/marketplace.json · reported by agent-audit-kit
These findings are in files this artifact installs and are not placeholder values. No false-positive basis can be corroborated for such a finding, so this review never dismisses one; they were not sent to the model and stand at their scanner's severity.
47 HIDDEN_DATA_FILE
Files: /repo/.agents/skills/refactor/SKILL.md, /repo/.agents/skills/github-issues/SKILL.md, /repo/.lycheeignore and 43 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
18 MANIFEST_MISSING_LICENSE
Files: /repo/.agents/skills/gh-stack/SKILL.md, /repo/.agents/skills/find-skills/SKILL.md, /repo/.agents/skills/github-issues/SKILL.md and 15 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
10 opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-go-secret-to-network-egress
Files: /repo/pkg/cli/clusterapi/cipher.go, /repo/pkg/client/sops/agekey.go, /repo/pkg/k8s/kubeconfig.go and 6 more · reported by nerlo-behavioral
8 PIPELINE_TAINT_FLOW
Files: /repo/pkg/svc/bootstrap/k3s/install.go, /repo/pkg/svc/bootstrap/kubeadm/install.go, /repo/pkg/svc/bootstrap/cloudinit/cloudinit.go and 5 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
7 DATA_EXFIL_JS_NETWORK
Files: /repo/web/ui/src/api.ts, /repo/web/ui/src/lib/plugins/k8s.ts, /repo/web/ui/src/lib/plugins/pluginLib.ts
The model could have called any of these a false positive and did not.
1 AAK-LEGAL-002
Files: docs/package.json · reported by agent-audit-kit
Artifact contains critical command injection and credential egress risks.
The artifact includes code that allows for command injection via child processes in `/repo/vsce/src/ksail/binary.ts`, which could lead to arbitrary shell execution. Multiple Go files, such as `/repo/pkg/cli/clusterapi/cipher.go` and `/repo/pkg/webui/api/auth.go`, exhibit patterns where secrets could be sent over the network. Additionally, sensitive tokens are present in `pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/kubeadmhetzner/token.go`, and installation scripts in `pkg/svc/bootstrap/k3s/install.go` pipe directly to a shell.
Concern level assessed by the review: Critical. This is the review's scale, not the registry badge.
Reviewed by gemini-2.5-flash. The model sees the findings, not your code, and cannot change a score.
7 SOCIAL_ENG_VAGUE_DESCRIPTION
Files: /repo/SKILL.md, /repo/vsce/SKILL.md, /repo/charts/ksail-operator/SKILL.md and 4 more · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
4 YARA_indirect_prompt_injection_generic
Files: /repo/.agents/skills/bubbletea/references/golden-rules.md, /repo/.agents/skills/bubbletea/references/SKILL.md · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
3 AAK-HEALTHCARE-AI-004
Files: .agents/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/bubbletea/references/troubleshooting.md, .agents/skills/bubbletea/references/emoji-width-fix.md · reported by agent-audit-kit
2 AAK-SECRET-004
Files: pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/kubeadmhetzner/token.go · reported by agent-audit-kit
2 COMMAND_INJECTION_JS_CHILD_PROCESS
Files: /repo/vsce/src/ksail/binary.ts · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
2 FILE_MAGIC_MISMATCH
Files: /repo/charts/ksail-operator/templates/NOTES.txt · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
2 opt.nerlo-rules.nerlo-install-pipe-to-shell
Files: /repo/pkg/svc/bootstrap/k3s/install.go, /repo/pkg/svc/bootstrap/kubeadm/install.go · reported by nerlo-install-instruction
1 AAK-IPI-WILD-CORPUS-001
Files: .agents/skills/gh-cli/SKILL.md · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 AAK-LEGAL-002
Files: web/ui/package.json · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 AAK-MARKETPLACE-001
Files: .claude-plugin/marketplace.json · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 AAK-MCP-006
Files: copilot-plugin/.mcp.json · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 AAK-SKILL-003
Files: .agents/skills/gh-cli/SKILL.md · reported by agent-audit-kit
1 EXCESSIVE_FILE_COUNT
Files: /repo/. · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 LOW_ANALYZABILITY
Files: /repo/vsce · reported by cisco-skill-scanner
1 YARA_capability_inflation_generic
Files: /repo/pkg/cli/cmd/workload/gen/gen.go · reported by cisco-skill-scanner