yara-rule-authoring
yara-rule-authoring is a Blue team & detection skill for AI agents, published by 26zl in the cybersec-toolkit repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates yara-rule-authoring D (69/100) and the safety scan flagged it for review; the rating is based on static analysis only.
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Guides authoring of high-quality YARA-X detection rules for malware identification. Use when writing, reviewing, or optimizing YARA rules. Covers naming conventions, string selection, performance optimization, migration from legacy YARA, and false positive reduction. Triggers on: YARA, YARA-X, malware detection, threat hunting, IOC, signature, crx module, dex module.
- Grade
- D
- Quality
- 69 / 100
- Safety
- Needs review
- GitHub stars
- 28
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 67 / 100
- Maturity
- Packaged: licensed, with a version or references
- Security scan
- Medium-risk patterns
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 1 collections
What the scanner flagged
- reads environment variables
- mentions secrets in text
Not checked 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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