writing-guarddog-rules
writing-guarddog-rules is an Agent security & guardrails skill for AI agents, published by DataDog in the guarddog repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates writing-guarddog-rules F (45/100) and the safety scan rated it risky; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Risky. This skill has patterns associated with unsafe behaviour. Read the source carefully before running it.
Author, edit, and review GuardDog YARA source-code detection rules (.yar) that follow the capability/threat/risk model. Use when adding a new detection rule, changing an existing rule's patterns or metadata, splitting capabilities from threats, debugging false positives, or writing rule test cases under guarddog/analyzer/sourcecode/.
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 45 / 100
- Safety
- Risky
- GitHub stars
- 1,157
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
Our two independent classifiers differ on this skill's category, so treat the placement as provisional.
This rating describes the version of the repository we crawled; it may have changed since.
Our review
- Architecture
- 100 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- High-risk patterns
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
What the scanner flagged
- accesses sensitive system files
- executes shell/subprocess
Not checked yet
- Category is a classifier prediction; no model has read this skill yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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