yara-skill

yara-skill is a Blue team & detection skill for AI agents, published by YARAHQ in the yara-rule-skill repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates yara-skill F (45/100) and the safety scan rated it risky; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Expert YARA rule authoring, review, and optimization. Use when writing new YARA rules, reviewing existing rules for quality issues, optimizing rule performance, or converting detection logic to YARA syntax. Covers rule naming conventions, string selection, condition optimization, performance tuning, and automated quality checks based on yaraQA.

Grade
F
Quality
45 / 100
Safety
Risky
GitHub stars
60

Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.

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Our review

Architecture
85 / 100
Maturity
Structured: ships references or scripts
Security scan
High-risk patterns
License
Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 1 collections

What the scanner flagged

  • dynamic code execution (eval/exec)

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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