Is Guidance safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Guidance on public evidence — it is currently active. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Guidance?

Drop the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ (user scope) or .claude/skills/ (project scope).

Who maintains Guidance?

9 GitHub contributors, source: testdouble/han.

‹ The Index

Guidance

skill

Authoritative guidance for building Claude Code skills, agents, and plugins, plus init and update steps that install and refresh the plugin-building skills in the current repository. Use when you need the rules or best practices for a skill, agent, hook, or plugin — designing, reviewing, hardening, or checking one against the guidance. Run with init to vendor the guidance, skill-builder, and agent-builder skills into the current repository (so they run with no dependency on this plugin) plus a path-scoped rule index, or update to refresh an already-vendored copy. Does not run an interview to build a new skill or agent from scratch — use skill-builder or agent-builder. …

Works with: Claude Code (native) · Cursor, Codex CLI (manual)
native: this artifact type is that client's own format

Install (Claude Code):

cp -r guidance ~/.claude/skills/

Adoption: 1 repos
Upkeep: 96.0
Freshness: 92.0
Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use — the rest are unknown, and the score is discounted for it
Health: active
Contributors: 9
License: MIT

Security audit

Not scanned yet. We audit npm-published capabilities for known advisories, install-time scripts and permission surface; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue.

Its own instructions

Its SKILL.md says when to use it, covers setup and states a limitation.

Read from the capability’s own SKILL.md. This is not a grade and does not compare to the instruction-depth verdict on an MCP server — a skill has no tools to document, so that rubric does not apply to it.

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Measured 2026-09-12 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?