Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-C8087C39

7/8/2026, 2:25:04 AM

neuropixels-analysis security assessment v8

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History
Audit model: codex Historical report
Skill name
neuropixels-analysis
Version
v8
Maintainer
davila7
Source
github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/main/cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/neuropixels-analysis
Coverage
19 Files scanned · 5,375 Lines analyzed
Policy version
Unavailable

Highest confirmed finding severity

Medium

1 confirmed security finding requires attention.

Installation context

Historical evidence

This report may not describe the currently installable artifact. Open the current Skill page for install guidance.

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This report does not block or authorize the manifest or ZIP.

All 101 static findings were adjudicated. The static alerts are false positives from Markdown examples, placeholder API keys, documentation URLs, scientific domain terms, and expected output writes. One semantic privacy risk remains because AI-assisted curation may send derived neural data to external model providers.

Report position

Historical report

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Audit attestation

Not attestable

The required immutable binding is incomplete.

Human verification

Not verified

No human verification is recorded for this report.

Coverage

19 Files scanned · 5,375 Lines analyzed

1 item shown for review

Limitations

This report does not claim runtime or sandbox execution and does not prove the absence of side effects.

Evidence chain

Follow the evidence from source binding to the install contract. Available evidence supports verification; it is not a safety guarantee.

  1. Source

    Binding unavailable

  2. Artifact

    Identity incomplete

  3. Audit

    Complete

  4. Install contract

    Open manifest to verify

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Capabilities observed

Observed means this report recorded supporting evidence. Not recorded does not prove that a capability is absent.

Contains scripts

May execute code included with the Skill.

Observed in 2 evidence locations

Network access

May connect to external services.

Observed in 11 evidence locations

Filesystem access

May read or write local files.

Observed in 7 evidence locations

Env variables

May read values from the process environment.

Observed in 2 evidence locations

External commands

May invoke commands or programs outside the Skill.

Observed in 48 evidence locations

Risk findings

Confirmed security concerns are separated from items that still need review.

Confirmed security concerns (1)

RISK-001 Medium
SKILL.md:159-178AI_CURATION.md:284-313
External AI Curation Can Share Research Data
The skill describes Anthropic and OpenAI clients for visual unit analysis. This can transmit waveform plots or derived neural recording data to external model providers unless users opt in.
The cited sections explicitly document provider clients and visual unit analysis. The feature appears intended rather than malicious, but it creates a privacy and data governance risk.

Remediation

Suggested fixes recorded by this audit. Applying them is the maintainer’s responsibility.

  1. FIX-001
    Medium
    External AI-assisted curation may disclose derived research data.
    Require explicit user confirmation before sending plots or metadata to model APIs, and document what data leaves the local environment.
  2. FIX-002
    Low
    API client examples show hardcoded placeholder keys.
    Use environment variables or secret managers in examples so users do not copy hardcoded key patterns into notebooks.
  3. FIX-003
    Low
    Installation examples reference moving third-party packages and GitHub repositories.
    Recommend pinned package versions or verified releases for reproducible and safer scientific environments.
  4. FIX-004
    Low
    Bundled scripts write analysis artifacts to user-selected output directories.
    Warn users to choose dedicated output directories and avoid paths containing important existing files.

Expert evidence

Immutable subject identity, scanner metadata, dismissed matches, and source-level evidence.

Artifact subject

Marketplace commit
Unavailable
Content hash
Unavailable
Tree hash
Unavailable
Skill path
Unavailable
Audit payload hash
Unavailable

Analysis metadata

Audit model: codex

Analysis state: Complete

Scope is limited to the recorded files, lines, methods, and evidence. No runtime or sandbox execution is claimed.

Verify and export

JSON report CITATION.cff SARIF 2.1.0 Signed installation manifest

The manifest and lockfile bind install artifacts to cryptographic hashes. This integrity claim is separate from the security assessment.

Audit attestation: not_attestable