canister-security

canister-security is a Smart contracts & Web3 skill for AI agents, published by dfinity in the icskills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates canister-security C (72/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

IC-specific security patterns for canister development in Motoko and Rust. Covers access control, anonymous principal rejection, reentrancy prevention (CallerGuard pattern), async safety (saga pattern), callback trap handling, cycle drain protection, and safe upgrade patterns. Use when writing or modifying any canister that modifies state, handles tokens, makes inter-canister calls, or implements access control.

Grade
C
Quality
72 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
27

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Our review

Architecture
96 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
No issues found
License
Apache-2.0
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections

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