Socket Brings Supply Chain Security to skills.sh

AI agents are becoming increasingly capable as developers enhance them with skills, which are packages that enable interactions with APIs, command executions, tool access, and workflow automation. Vercel's skills.sh has indexed over 60,000 skills from various agent tools, showcasing the potential of decentralized development where developers can mix and match skills to create powerful workflows. However, this also introduces supply chain security challenges similar to those in npm and PyPI ecosystems, such as malicious packages and typosquatting. Socket addresses these challenges by implementing supply chain security for AI agent skills, starting with skills.sh, using a scanning engine that evaluates skills for malicious behavior across multiple programming languages and ecosystems. The scanner employs both static analysis and AI-powered detection to ensure high precision and recall rates in identifying threats, maintaining a balance between detecting malicious skills and minimizing false positives. As the skills ecosystem rapidly evolves, Socket is committed to expanding its protective measures to safeguard developers on platforms like skills.sh and beyond.