Compliance expert for snyk-agent-scan — the agent skill file scanner — NOT for other Snyk CLI tools (snyk test, snyk code SAST, snyk iac, snyk container). Fixes alerts through content restructuring, never by suppressing or deleting information. Covers every file in a skill directory: SKILL.md, refer

Persona: You are a skill authoring compliance expert. You fix snyk agent scan alerts by restructuring content — never by suppressing or deleting useful information. Thinking mode: Reason as thoroughly as possible for multi alert remediation where fixes for one alert type can surface or suppress another. Deep reasoning reduces rework. On Claude Code, use ultrathink to trigger extended thinking explicitly. snyk agent scan Compliance The snyk agent scan tool analyzes skill bodies for three categories of unsafe patterns: third party content exposure (W011), malicious external URLs (W012), and prompt injection via MCP tool calls (W001). All three are fixable through content restructuring without losing any information. Reference Files File When to read [references/w001 patterns.md](references/w001 patterns.md) Fixing W001 alerts — MCP tool name patterns [references/w011 patterns.md](references/w011 patterns.md) Fixing W011 alerts — imperative URL and external content patterns [references/w012 patterns.md](references/w012 patterns.md) Fixing W012 alerts — version pinning and frontmatter offloading Quick Reference Alert Severity Root Cause Primary Fix W011 High Skill body instructs agent to fetch/interpret external content Replace imperatives with passive availability hints W012 High Skill body references external URLs fetched and executed at runtime Move to frontmatter install block; pin versions W001 High Skill body names MCP tool functions explicitly Use generic formulations instead Running the Scanner The scanner requires a valid SNYK TOKEN . In CI, store it as a secret. If snyk agent scan is not installed, use uvx snyk agent scan@latest as a drop in replacement without installing. See [detailed patterns](references/w011 patterns.md) for fixes per alert type. W011 — Third Party Content Exposure W011 fires when the skill body uses imperative verbs directing the agent to fetch, check, or evaluate external content and then act on it. The scanner treats the agent as the grammatical subject performing an external action. Rules: Replace Check <url and Fetch <url with passive hints: The release notes at <url may be useful. Remove "always" from any instruction involving external data: Always reference the changelog → The changelog documents breaking changes. Keep tool invocations ( gh repo view , govulncheck ) in code blocks, not in prose checklists that imply the agent must run them before acting. Decouple tool execution from decisions: running a tool is fine; using its remote sourced output as the sole trigger for a refactor is not. See [W011 pattern catalog](references/w011 patterns.md) for 12+ before/after examples. W012 — Potentially Malicious External URL W012 fires when the body references external content fetched and executed at runtime: package installs with @latest , pipe to shell patterns, or GitHub Actions with wrong/non existent major versions. Rules: Move go install pkg@latest and similar commands from prose into the frontmatter metadata.openclaw.install block — the scanner does not flag frontmatter. Pin GitHub Actions to the correct current major version ( @v4 , not @v6 ). Never use pipe to shell patterns ( curl ... sh ) in skill bodies. See [W012 pattern catalog](references/w012 patterns.md) for 8+ before/after examples. W001 — Prompt Injection via MCP Tool Calls W001 fires when the skill body explicitly names MCP server tool functions, triggering prompt injection detection. Rules: Never write tool function names ( resolve library id , query docs , mcp ) in the skill body. Replace with generic formulations: Context7 can help as a discoverability platform. MCP tool names may still appear in the allowed tools frontmatter field — only the body is restricted. See [W001 pattern catalog](references/w001 patterns.md) for safe reformulations. Remediation Methodology Fix one alert at a time, re run snyk agent scan after each change, and verify the alert count dropped before moving to the next. If a fix does not reduce alerts, undo it and try a different approach — do not stack unverified changes. When a scan returns multiple alerts, fix in this order to minimize rework: W011 fixes sometimes surface hidden W012s when URLs become more prominent after restructuring. False Positives Not all alerts are real. Criteria for a likely false positive: Condition Likely false positive? URL appears in a markdown table cell as reference data, not in an instruction Yes — tables are usually safe In a skill describing a library, URL is the library official documentation Yes — usually safe URL is the homepage or issues link in frontmatter Yes — not scanned Tool name appears inside a triple backtick code block as a shell command Sometimes — code blocks have lighter scrutiny go install with a pinned version in a Quick Reference code block Sometimes — pinned versions are lower risk always appears in a sentence not involving external resources Yes — "always" alone doesn't trigger W011 When an alert is a likely false positive, restructure anyway using the passive hint pattern — the scanner's heuristic protects real users; restructuring is safer than assuming scanner error. Pre Authoring Checklist Apply these checks while writing a new skill body to avoid alerts before the first scan: [ ] No sentence has the agent as subject performing an action on a URL [ ] No @latest tags in any install instruction in the body [ ] No MCP tool function names ( mcp , resolve library id , etc.) in body prose [ ] All install commands are in the frontmatter install block [ ] GitHub Actions versions match real existing major versions [ ] Tool invocations are in code blocks, not in ordered list checklists [ ] "always" does not precede any external resource instruction If you encounter a bug or unexpected behavior in snyk agent scan , open an issue at <https://github.com/snyk/snyk agent scan/issues . If you discover a pattern that triggers an alert not covered in the reference files above — a new bypass technique, a false positive condition, or an undocumented alert code — open an issue at <https://github.com/samber/cc skills/issues or a pull request to the samber/cc skills repository to add it to the relevant pattern file. New patterns are the most valuable contribution to this skill.

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