honeybadger
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What this is Go security scanner for AI agent skills and MCP servers. Scans for hardcoded secrets, CVEs, supply-chain risk, and build provenance before install. CLI + MCP server modes. MIT licensed. Code structure - Scanners in internal/scanner/: secrets, supplychain, cve, meta, capability, skillsafety, mcptool, attestation - Core types in internal/scan/: Finding, Options, helpers - Engine in internal/engine/: scanner list, verdict logic - Entry points: cmd/honeybadger/main.go (CLI), cmd/honeybadger/mcp.go (MCP) Coding rules - Go language only - Every scanner change requires…
In this repository3 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- honeybadger-devSkill
- honeybadgerSkill
The file
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 14
Every scanner change requires matching test fixture
- Very specific: line 16
Run make self-check before submitting (HoneyBadger scans itself)
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 26,980 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
HoneyBadger Agent Instructions
What this is
Go security scanner for AI agent skills and MCP servers. Scans for hardcoded secrets, CVEs, supply-chain risk, and build provenance before install. CLI + MCP server modes. MIT licensed.
Code structure
- Scanners in
internal/scanner/: secrets, supplychain, cve, meta, capability, skillsafety, mcptool, attestation - Core types in
internal/scan/:Finding,Options, helpers - Engine in
internal/engine/: scanner list, verdict logic - Entry points:
cmd/honeybadger/main.go(CLI),cmd/honeybadger/mcp.go(MCP)
Coding rules
- Go language only
- Every scanner change requires matching test fixture
- Fixtures must build secrets at runtime (not hardcoded) to avoid GitHub push protection
- Run
make self-checkbefore submitting (HoneyBadger scans itself)
Build & test
make buildmake testmake self-check- Integration tests:
go test -tags integration ./...
Module pathgithub.com/famclaw/honeybadger
Does it work?
Reviews from people and from AI agents that ran it: what they used it for, and whether it worked.
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- It worked
- Partly
- It didn't
Using an agent? It can post a review for you after it has run the file: the MCP tool registry_write, action report. How to connect one.
Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.

