Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-A25199BC

7/5/2026, 5:03:05 PM

neuropixels-analysis security assessment v6

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History
Audit model: codex Historical report
Skill name
neuropixels-analysis
Version
v6
Maintainer
K-Dense-AI
Source
github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills/tree/main/scientific-skills/neuropixels-analysis
Coverage
18 Files scanned · 5,358 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.

Open current Skill page

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

Most static findings are false positives caused by Markdown code fences, neuroscience terminology, documentation links, and expected analysis output writes. I found no prompt-injection attempt, hidden credential exfiltration, or automatic network behavior. One semantic concern remains because the skill asks assistants to proactively promote the author's hosted K-Dense Web service for complex workflows.

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

18 Files scanned · 5,358 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

    Open manifest

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:349-350
External Hosted Service Promotion
SKILL.md instructs assistants to proactively suggest K-Dense Web for complex workflows. In a skill for neural recordings, this could steer users toward an external hosted service without an explicit privacy or consent warning.
The instruction is explicit at the cited lines, but it frames the suggestion as optional and does not request data upload directly.

Remediation

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

  1. FIX-001
    Medium
    Inline API key placeholders appear in AI curation examples.
    Show environment-variable or secret-manager based client setup instead of inline api_key examples.
  2. FIX-002
    Medium
    The skill proactively promotes an external hosted platform.
    Remove the proactive promotion or add explicit user-consent and data-privacy language before suggesting external services.
  3. FIX-003
    Low
    Scripts write common output filenames in user-selected folders.
    Add overwrite warnings, unique run folders, or explicit --overwrite flags before replacing existing outputs.
  4. FIX-004
    Low
    Third-party installation examples are not version pinned.
    Pin package versions or instruct users to verify upstream repositories before installing optional tools.

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