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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: skillguard-lint
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: The Static Security Scanner, Linter, and Quality Gate for AI Agent Skills (SKILL.md)
+Author-email: Eslam Elzamkan <eslam@example.com>
+License: Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/eslamelzamkan/skillguard
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/eslamelzamkan/skillguard
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/eslamelzamkan/skillguard/issues
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
+Classifier: Topic :: Security
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Provides-Extra: semantic
+Requires-Dist: sentence-transformers>=2.2.0; extra == "semantic"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+<div align="center">
+
+# 🛡️ SkillGuard
+
+**The Static Security Scanner, Linter, and Quality Gate for AI Agent Skills (`SKILL.md`).**
+
+[![Python 3.10+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10+-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-green.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![Tests](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-71%20passed-success.svg)](tests/)
+[![Zero Dependencies](https://img.shields.io/badge/dependencies-zero%20(stdlib%20only)-blueviolet.svg)](#zero-dependencies)
+
+*Works seamlessly across **Claude Code**, **Cursor**, **Google Antigravity**, **OpenAI Codex**, and **LangChain DeepAgents**.*
+
+</div>
+
+---
+
+## ⚡ The Problem: Why Unchecked Agent Skills Fail
+
+As autonomous coding agents adopt the `SKILL.md` paradigm, developers are writing, sharing, and auto-generating hundreds of skill packs. However, empirical research reveals severe pitfalls:
+
+* **Negative Transfer (−1.3pp to −11.5pp):** Skills written without strict structural bounds and actionable specificity actually degrade agent performance by 25% to 47% ([arXiv:2602.12670](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12670), [arXiv:2605.23899](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23899)).
+* **Security & Destructive Operations:** Unhedged skills instruct agents to execute permanent deletions (`rm -rf`, `DROP TABLE`), invite external users, or forward data outside workspace boundaries.
+* **Prompt Injection Compliance:** Agents following instructions inside untrusted tool/email outputs treat injected text as commands without scope guards ([arXiv:2604.05172](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05172), [arXiv:2605.12015](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12015)).
+* **Routing Collisions & Context Bloat:** Overlapping skill descriptions confuse the LLM router, while skills over 1,600 words dilute context and collapse lift from **+19.0pp to +10.1pp**.
+
+**SkillGuard is the "ESLint + Snyk" for Agent Skills.** It catches defects, security vulnerabilities, routing collisions, and token bloat in milliseconds—before runtime.
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Quick Start
+
+### Installation
+
+```bash
+pip install skillguard-lint
+```
+
+*(Zero dependencies by default. Runs anywhere on Python 3.10+ using only the Python standard library).*
+
+### 1. Lint and Check Skills
+
+Scan an individual `SKILL.md` or a directory of skills:
+
+```bash
+skillguard check ./skills/
+# Or use the fast alias:
+skg check ./skills/
+```
+
+### 2. Security & Safety Audit
+
+Audit specifically for destructive actions, credential leakage, and prompt injection patterns:
+
+```bash
+skillguard audit ./skills/
+```
+
+> **Smart Negation Detection:** SkillGuard understands English grammar and negative constraints. Unlike naive regex scripts, defensive sentences like `Never run rm -rf on the build directory` or scope-guard bullets like `- Avoid dropping tables` will **never** trigger false positives.
+
+### 3. Detect Routing Collisions & Overlaps
+
+Identify duplicate skills, trigger collisions, and excessive library accumulation:
+
+```bash
+# Pure-Python Lexical & Trigger Overlap (Default, <10ms, zero-dependency)
+skillguard dedupe ./skills/
+
+# Optional: Dense Vector Semantic Similarity (requires sentence-transformers)
+skillguard dedupe ./skills/ --semantic
+```
+
+*(To use dense vector semantic embeddings, install the optional extra: `pip install "skillguard-lint[semantic]"`)*.
+
+### 4. Scaffold a New Production-Ready Skill
+
+Generate a clean, gold-standard, 100% compliant skill pack:
+
+```bash
+skillguard init git-conflict-resolver --description "Resolve git merge conflicts cleanly"
+```
+
+### 5. Inspect Library Token Footprint
+
+```bash
+skillguard stats ./skills/
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🤖 GitHub Actions CI/CD Integration
+
+Prevent broken or insecure agent skills from merging into your repository. Add this workflow to `.github/workflows/skill-audit.yml`:
+
+```yaml
+name: Skill Quality & Security Audit
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+
+jobs:
+  audit-skills:
+    name: Audit Agent Skills
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+      - run: pip install skillguard-lint
+      - run: skillguard check ./skills/ --format github
+```
+
+When run in GitHub Actions with `--format github`, SkillGuard automatically posts inline annotations directly on your pull request diffs!
+
+---
+
+## 📋 Diagnostic Rule Catalog
+
+Run `skillguard rules` to inspect the full catalog:
+
+| Code | Category | Severity | Name | Description |
+|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
+| **SF001** | Structure | `ERROR` | `missing-frontmatter` | Missing YAML frontmatter block (`--- ... ---`) |
+| **SF002** | Structure | `ERROR` | `missing-required-metadata` | Frontmatter missing required `name` or `description` |
+| **SF003** | Structure | `WARNING` | `nonstandard-metadata-key` | Non-standard metadata key in YAML frontmatter |
+| **SF004** | Quality | `WARNING` | `missing-trigger-clause` | Description does not start triggers with `"Use when..."` |
+| **SF005** | Structure | `ERROR` | `missing-pipeline-section` | Missing `## Pipeline` or `## Procedure` ordered steps |
+| **SF006** | Safety | `ERROR` | `missing-scope-guard` | Missing `## Scope guard` boundary definitions |
+| **SF007** | Quality | `WARNING` | `missing-not-in-scope` | Missing `## Not in scope` boundary section |
+| **SF008** | Bloat | `WARNING` | `body-too-long` | Body exceeds 1,600 words (~2,000 tokens) |
+| **SF009** | Quality | `WARNING` | `body-too-short` | Body is under 30 words (lacks actionable detail) |
+| **SF101** | Security | `ERROR` | `destructive-command` | Irreversible deletion (`rm -rf`, `os.remove`, `Path.unlink`) |
+| **SF102** | Security | `ERROR` | `destructive-database-action` | Destructive database op (`DROP TABLE`, `TRUNCATE`, `DELETE FROM`) |
+| **SF103** | Security | `ERROR` | `data-exfiltration-risk` | Unauthorized external sending or auto-forwarding |
+| **SF104** | Security | `ERROR` | `permission-escalation` | Public sharing (`anyone-with-link`, `setAdmin`) |
+| **SF105** | Security | `ERROR` | `prompt-injection-pattern` | Instruction override (`ignore previous instructions`, verifier tamper) |
+| **SF106** | Security | `ERROR` | `secret-credential-probing` | Harvesting environment variables or probing localhost |
+| **SF107** | Security | `ERROR` | `dangerous-sidecar-file` | Unsafe pattern detected in `scripts/` or `references/` |
+| **SF201** | Portability | `WARNING` | `absolute-path-leakage` | Absolute filesystem path (`C:\...`, `/home/...`) in body |
+| **SF202** | Portability | `WARNING` | `hash-or-uuid-literal` | Hardcoded UUID or hash literal (overfitted lookup) |
+| **SF301** | Library | `WARNING` | `skill-description-collision` | High trigger overlap (>55%) between skill descriptions |
+| **SF302** | Library | `WARNING` | `library-size-exceeded` | Library exceeds 8 active skills (context dilution risk) |
+| **SF303** | Library | `WARNING` | `domain-duplicate-skills` | Multiple active skills competing in the same domain |
+
+---
+
+## ⚙️ ESLint-Style Rule Suppression
+
+SkillGuard supports granular inline directives identical to ESLint:
+
+### 1. Disable Next Line
+
+```markdown
+<!-- skillguard-disable-next-line SF101 -->
+Run rm -rf /tmp/test-cache to reset local test state.
+```
+
+### 2. Disable Multi-Line Block
+
+```markdown
+<!-- skillguard-disable SF101, SF102 -->
+Execute shutil.rmtree(staging_dir)
+Run DROP TABLE staging_users;
+<!-- skillguard-enable SF101, SF102 -->
+```
+
+### 3. File-Level Suppression
+
+```markdown
+<!-- skillguard: ignore SF008, SF201 -->
+```
+
+### 4. CLI Suppression
+
+```bash
+skillguard check ./skills/ --ignore SF008,SF201
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📚 Verified Research Foundations
+
+SkillGuard's rules, heuristics, and thresholds are derived directly from published peer-reviewed AI agent benchmarks:
+
+1. **SkillsBench ([arXiv:2602.12670](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12670)):**  
+   *Xiangyi Li, Wenbo Chen, Yimin Liu, et al.*  
+   *Key finding:* Uncurated self-generated skills deliver **−1.3pp** average lift (down to −11.5pp), while structured curated skills achieve **+16.6pp**. Focused modular skill registers consistently outperform bloated documentation packs.
+2. **ClawsBench ([arXiv:2604.05172](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05172)):**  
+   *Evaluating Capability and Safety of LLM Productivity Agents in Simulated Workspaces.*  
+   *Key finding:* Adding domain skills without safety guardrails increases an agent's Unsafe Action Rate from **23% to 48%**. Introducing an explicit Scope Guard instruction layer cuts unsafe actions by **−21.9pp to −27.5pp** without hurting task capability.
+3. **SkillFlow ([arXiv:2604.17308](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17308)):**  
+   *Benchmarking Lifelong Skill Discovery and Evolution for Autonomous Agents.*  
+   *Key finding:* Consolidating into 1 repeatedly-refined skill per domain beats accumulating multiple sibling skills (**+19.0pp vs +10.1pp**). Active library sizes beyond 8 skills lead to catastrophic routing interference.
+4. **From Raw Experience to Skill Consumption ([arXiv:2605.23899](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23899)):**  
+   *Zisu Huang, Jingwen Xu, Yifan Yang, et al.*  
+   *Key finding:* Measures **25% to 47% negative transfer** in model-generated skills lacking procedural grounding and negative scoping (`## Not in scope`).
+5. **SkillSafetyBench ([arXiv:2605.12015](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12015)):**  
+   *Chang Jin, An Wang, Zeming Wei, et al.*  
+   *Key finding:* Sidecar reference files and helper scripts are major attack vectors for prompt injection and sandbox escape. Validating `scripts/` and `references/` sidecars is essential for agent safety.
+
+---
+
+## 🏛️ Core Invariants
+
+* **Zero Network, Stdlib Only:** Default runtime makes zero HTTP/network calls and has no external dependencies.
+* **Sub-100ms Execution:** Built in pure Python for instantaneous execution in git pre-commit hooks and local terminals.
+* **Non-Destructive:** Safe to execute across any private codebase or workspace.
+
+---
+
+## 📜 License
+
+Apache-2.0 — Open source and enterprise ready.

skillguard_lint-0.1.0/README.md

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+<div align="center">
+
+# 🛡️ SkillGuard
+
+**The Static Security Scanner, Linter, and Quality Gate for AI Agent Skills (`SKILL.md`).**
+
+[![Python 3.10+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10+-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-green.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![Tests](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-71%20passed-success.svg)](tests/)
+[![Zero Dependencies](https://img.shields.io/badge/dependencies-zero%20(stdlib%20only)-blueviolet.svg)](#zero-dependencies)
+
+*Works seamlessly across **Claude Code**, **Cursor**, **Google Antigravity**, **OpenAI Codex**, and **LangChain DeepAgents**.*
+
+</div>
+
+---
+
+## ⚡ The Problem: Why Unchecked Agent Skills Fail
+
+As autonomous coding agents adopt the `SKILL.md` paradigm, developers are writing, sharing, and auto-generating hundreds of skill packs. However, empirical research reveals severe pitfalls:
+
+* **Negative Transfer (−1.3pp to −11.5pp):** Skills written without strict structural bounds and actionable specificity actually degrade agent performance by 25% to 47% ([arXiv:2602.12670](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12670), [arXiv:2605.23899](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23899)).
+* **Security & Destructive Operations:** Unhedged skills instruct agents to execute permanent deletions (`rm -rf`, `DROP TABLE`), invite external users, or forward data outside workspace boundaries.
+* **Prompt Injection Compliance:** Agents following instructions inside untrusted tool/email outputs treat injected text as commands without scope guards ([arXiv:2604.05172](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05172), [arXiv:2605.12015](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12015)).
+* **Routing Collisions & Context Bloat:** Overlapping skill descriptions confuse the LLM router, while skills over 1,600 words dilute context and collapse lift from **+19.0pp to +10.1pp**.
+
+**SkillGuard is the "ESLint + Snyk" for Agent Skills.** It catches defects, security vulnerabilities, routing collisions, and token bloat in milliseconds—before runtime.
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Quick Start
+
+### Installation
+
+```bash
+pip install skillguard-lint
+```
+
+*(Zero dependencies by default. Runs anywhere on Python 3.10+ using only the Python standard library).*
+
+### 1. Lint and Check Skills
+
+Scan an individual `SKILL.md` or a directory of skills:
+
+```bash
+skillguard check ./skills/
+# Or use the fast alias:
+skg check ./skills/
+```
+
+### 2. Security & Safety Audit
+
+Audit specifically for destructive actions, credential leakage, and prompt injection patterns:
+
+```bash
+skillguard audit ./skills/
+```
+
+> **Smart Negation Detection:** SkillGuard understands English grammar and negative constraints. Unlike naive regex scripts, defensive sentences like `Never run rm -rf on the build directory` or scope-guard bullets like `- Avoid dropping tables` will **never** trigger false positives.
+
+### 3. Detect Routing Collisions & Overlaps
+
+Identify duplicate skills, trigger collisions, and excessive library accumulation:
+
+```bash
+# Pure-Python Lexical & Trigger Overlap (Default, <10ms, zero-dependency)
+skillguard dedupe ./skills/
+
+# Optional: Dense Vector Semantic Similarity (requires sentence-transformers)
+skillguard dedupe ./skills/ --semantic
+```
+
+*(To use dense vector semantic embeddings, install the optional extra: `pip install "skillguard-lint[semantic]"`)*.
+
+### 4. Scaffold a New Production-Ready Skill
+
+Generate a clean, gold-standard, 100% compliant skill pack:
+
+```bash
+skillguard init git-conflict-resolver --description "Resolve git merge conflicts cleanly"
+```
+
+### 5. Inspect Library Token Footprint
+
+```bash
+skillguard stats ./skills/
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🤖 GitHub Actions CI/CD Integration
+
+Prevent broken or insecure agent skills from merging into your repository. Add this workflow to `.github/workflows/skill-audit.yml`:
+
+```yaml
+name: Skill Quality & Security Audit
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+
+jobs:
+  audit-skills:
+    name: Audit Agent Skills
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+      - run: pip install skillguard-lint
+      - run: skillguard check ./skills/ --format github
+```
+
+When run in GitHub Actions with `--format github`, SkillGuard automatically posts inline annotations directly on your pull request diffs!
+
+---
+
+## 📋 Diagnostic Rule Catalog
+
+Run `skillguard rules` to inspect the full catalog:
+
+| Code | Category | Severity | Name | Description |
+|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---|
+| **SF001** | Structure | `ERROR` | `missing-frontmatter` | Missing YAML frontmatter block (`--- ... ---`) |
+| **SF002** | Structure | `ERROR` | `missing-required-metadata` | Frontmatter missing required `name` or `description` |
+| **SF003** | Structure | `WARNING` | `nonstandard-metadata-key` | Non-standard metadata key in YAML frontmatter |
+| **SF004** | Quality | `WARNING` | `missing-trigger-clause` | Description does not start triggers with `"Use when..."` |
+| **SF005** | Structure | `ERROR` | `missing-pipeline-section` | Missing `## Pipeline` or `## Procedure` ordered steps |
+| **SF006** | Safety | `ERROR` | `missing-scope-guard` | Missing `## Scope guard` boundary definitions |
+| **SF007** | Quality | `WARNING` | `missing-not-in-scope` | Missing `## Not in scope` boundary section |
+| **SF008** | Bloat | `WARNING` | `body-too-long` | Body exceeds 1,600 words (~2,000 tokens) |
+| **SF009** | Quality | `WARNING` | `body-too-short` | Body is under 30 words (lacks actionable detail) |
+| **SF101** | Security | `ERROR` | `destructive-command` | Irreversible deletion (`rm -rf`, `os.remove`, `Path.unlink`) |
+| **SF102** | Security | `ERROR` | `destructive-database-action` | Destructive database op (`DROP TABLE`, `TRUNCATE`, `DELETE FROM`) |
+| **SF103** | Security | `ERROR` | `data-exfiltration-risk` | Unauthorized external sending or auto-forwarding |
+| **SF104** | Security | `ERROR` | `permission-escalation` | Public sharing (`anyone-with-link`, `setAdmin`) |
+| **SF105** | Security | `ERROR` | `prompt-injection-pattern` | Instruction override (`ignore previous instructions`, verifier tamper) |
+| **SF106** | Security | `ERROR` | `secret-credential-probing` | Harvesting environment variables or probing localhost |
+| **SF107** | Security | `ERROR` | `dangerous-sidecar-file` | Unsafe pattern detected in `scripts/` or `references/` |
+| **SF201** | Portability | `WARNING` | `absolute-path-leakage` | Absolute filesystem path (`C:\...`, `/home/...`) in body |
+| **SF202** | Portability | `WARNING` | `hash-or-uuid-literal` | Hardcoded UUID or hash literal (overfitted lookup) |
+| **SF301** | Library | `WARNING` | `skill-description-collision` | High trigger overlap (>55%) between skill descriptions |
+| **SF302** | Library | `WARNING` | `library-size-exceeded` | Library exceeds 8 active skills (context dilution risk) |
+| **SF303** | Library | `WARNING` | `domain-duplicate-skills` | Multiple active skills competing in the same domain |
+
+---
+
+## ⚙️ ESLint-Style Rule Suppression
+
+SkillGuard supports granular inline directives identical to ESLint:
+
+### 1. Disable Next Line
+
+```markdown
+<!-- skillguard-disable-next-line SF101 -->
+Run rm -rf /tmp/test-cache to reset local test state.
+```
+
+### 2. Disable Multi-Line Block
+
+```markdown
+<!-- skillguard-disable SF101, SF102 -->
+Execute shutil.rmtree(staging_dir)
+Run DROP TABLE staging_users;
+<!-- skillguard-enable SF101, SF102 -->
+```
+
+### 3. File-Level Suppression
+
+```markdown
+<!-- skillguard: ignore SF008, SF201 -->
+```
+
+### 4. CLI Suppression
+
+```bash
+skillguard check ./skills/ --ignore SF008,SF201
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📚 Verified Research Foundations
+
+SkillGuard's rules, heuristics, and thresholds are derived directly from published peer-reviewed AI agent benchmarks:
+
+1. **SkillsBench ([arXiv:2602.12670](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12670)):**  
+   *Xiangyi Li, Wenbo Chen, Yimin Liu, et al.*  
+   *Key finding:* Uncurated self-generated skills deliver **−1.3pp** average lift (down to −11.5pp), while structured curated skills achieve **+16.6pp**. Focused modular skill registers consistently outperform bloated documentation packs.
+2. **ClawsBench ([arXiv:2604.05172](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05172)):**  
+   *Evaluating Capability and Safety of LLM Productivity Agents in Simulated Workspaces.*  
+   *Key finding:* Adding domain skills without safety guardrails increases an agent's Unsafe Action Rate from **23% to 48%**. Introducing an explicit Scope Guard instruction layer cuts unsafe actions by **−21.9pp to −27.5pp** without hurting task capability.
+3. **SkillFlow ([arXiv:2604.17308](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17308)):**  
+   *Benchmarking Lifelong Skill Discovery and Evolution for Autonomous Agents.*  
+   *Key finding:* Consolidating into 1 repeatedly-refined skill per domain beats accumulating multiple sibling skills (**+19.0pp vs +10.1pp**). Active library sizes beyond 8 skills lead to catastrophic routing interference.
+4. **From Raw Experience to Skill Consumption ([arXiv:2605.23899](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23899)):**  
+   *Zisu Huang, Jingwen Xu, Yifan Yang, et al.*  
+   *Key finding:* Measures **25% to 47% negative transfer** in model-generated skills lacking procedural grounding and negative scoping (`## Not in scope`).
+5. **SkillSafetyBench ([arXiv:2605.12015](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12015)):**  
+   *Chang Jin, An Wang, Zeming Wei, et al.*  
+   *Key finding:* Sidecar reference files and helper scripts are major attack vectors for prompt injection and sandbox escape. Validating `scripts/` and `references/` sidecars is essential for agent safety.
+
+---
+
+## 🏛️ Core Invariants
+
+* **Zero Network, Stdlib Only:** Default runtime makes zero HTTP/network calls and has no external dependencies.
+* **Sub-100ms Execution:** Built in pure Python for instantaneous execution in git pre-commit hooks and local terminals.
+* **Non-Destructive:** Safe to execute across any private codebase or workspace.
+
+---
+
+## 📜 License
+
+Apache-2.0 — Open source and enterprise ready.