Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-88A205C7

7/8/2026, 4:07:40 PM

test-driven-development security assessment v5

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History
Audit model: codex Latest published report
Skill name
test-driven-development
Version
v5
Maintainer
ZhanlinCui
Coverage
2 Files scanned · 672 Lines analyzed
Policy version
Unavailable

Highest confirmed finding severity

Medium

1 confirmed security finding requires attention.

Installation context

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This page summarizes report evidence only. The Skill page provides the canonical install advisory.

Open current Skill page

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

The static external-command and reconnaissance findings are false positives caused by markdown fences, examples, and ordinary testing language. I found one semantic risk: the skill encourages deleting implementation code when TDD was not followed, which can cause unwanted data loss without user confirmation.

Report position

Latest published report

Latest refers to the report sequence, not to artifact currentness.

Audit attestation

Not attestable

The required immutable binding is incomplete.

Human verification

Not verified

No human verification is recorded for this report.

Coverage

2 Files scanned · 672 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

    Commit and path bound

  2. Artifact

    Content and tree hashes bound

  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.

Not recorded by this audit

Network access

May connect to external services.

Not recorded by this audit

Filesystem access

May read or write local files.

Not recorded by this audit

Env variables

May read values from the process environment.

Not recorded by this audit

External commands

May invoke commands or programs outside the Skill.

Observed in 27 evidence locations

Risk findings

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

Confirmed security concerns (1)

RISK-001 Medium
Destructive Development Workflow Instruction
The skill repeatedly tells agents to delete implementation code and start over when TDD was not followed. This can destroy user work if applied without explicit confirmation or version-control safeguards.
The cited lines directly instruct deletion as a workflow response. The behavior is not malicious, but it creates a real risk of unwanted data loss in active workspaces.

Remediation

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

  1. FIX-001
    Medium
    Destructive deletion guidance
    Change deletion instructions to require explicit user confirmation and a clean version-control state before removing or replacing code.

Expert evidence

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

Artifact subject

Marketplace commit
88a205c7f635a966e31156313b590d59007c5caa
Content hash
7dee67b4af6bdccc7a914ca34533184d64592d0f5b23aeae631538168db14994
Tree hash
db3ff74278b0c4e14e212e31fe8a54bacabc59fb9020861fe07723d85a842c00
Skill path
skills/zhanlincui/test-driven-development
Audit payload hash
b56973dcb6303c2aa424dd83824d0eb2

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

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

Audit attestation: not_attestable