frontend-tooling-trust-gate
Use before installing or recommending npm packages, GitHub repos, templates, MCP servers, plugins, Codex skills, ChatGPT skills, scripts, CLI tools, design libraries, scraping tools, or AI agent tools for frontend or website work. Produces trust classifications, install-safety decisions, safer alternatives, and project-local/global install guidance.
npx skills add TheGoat395/Codex-Skills --skill frontend-tooling-trust-gate --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Frontend Tooling Trust Gate Use this skill before installing or recommending a repo, package, MCP, plugin, template, or script. ## Trust Classes - `preferred`: official or clearly reputable. - `acceptable`: useful, maintained, and reasonably transparent. - `inspect manually`: promising but insufficiently verified. - `avoid`: suspicious, stale, unsafe, or low-quality. - `unknown risk`: not enough evidence. ## Inspection Checklist 1. Prefer official sources, verified orgs, and vendor-maintained repos. 2. Inspect README specificity, license, SECURITY.md, recent commits, releases, issues, and package registry links. 3. Inspect `package.json`, scripts, dependencies, and install instructions. 4. Use `npm view <package> repository license version time maintainers` when npm metadata matters. 5. Look for preinstall/postinstall scripts, broad permissions, telemetry, token requests, cookie access, or curl-to-shell commands. 6. Prefer project-local installs for frontend tools and libraries. 7. Avoid global installs unless the tool is an agent-wide CLI and the user explicitly approves it. 8. Never expose API keys, browser cookies, SSH keys, tokens, or private files to unknown tools. ## Decisi
- Trust Classes
- Inspection Checklist
- Decision Output
What does the frontend-tooling-trust-gate skill do?
Use before installing or recommending npm packages, GitHub repos, templates, MCP servers, plugins, Codex skills, ChatGPT skills, scripts, CLI tools, design libraries, scraping tools, or AI agent tools for frontend or website work. Produces trust classifications, install-safety decisions, safer alternatives, and project-local/global install guidance.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add TheGoat395/Codex-Skills --skill frontend-tooling-trust-gate --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From TheGoat395/Codex-Skills, a repository with 115 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.