setup-local-kubernetes

Fail

Audited by Socket on Feb 27, 2026

1 alert found:

Malware
MalwareHIGH
SKILL.md

This skill is a coherent, plausible guide for setting up a local Kubernetes development environment. It uses common tools and official-looking URLs, and its capabilities align with the stated purpose. However, it contains multiple download-and-execute patterns (curl|bash, unpinned binaries), requires elevated privileges, and instructs disabling TLS verification for metrics-server — all of which are supply-chain and security risks in a local development setting. There is no direct evidence of credential harvesting or backdoors in the provided content, but the install patterns and privileged operations raise meaningful risk that a compromised upstream artifact could execute arbitrary code on the host. Recommend hardening: prefer pinned releases/checksums, avoid piping remote scripts to shell, validate binaries before install, minimize use of --kubelet-insecure-tls, and avoid destructive teardown commands without explicit confirmation.

Confidence: 95%Severity: 90%
Audit Metadata
Analyzed At
Feb 27, 2026, 10:55 PM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/pjt222%2Fdevelopment-guides%2Fsetup-local-kubernetes%2F@fd53df2493ddccaa6a7b31434ead723693cb1776