What is little-canary?
little-canary is a Claude skill by hermes-labs-ai that screen inbound text with a sacrificial canary. It is listed under Other and has 39 GitHub stars.
| Type | Claude skill |
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| Author | hermes-labs-ai |
| Repository | hermes-labs-ai/little-canary |
| Popularity | 39 GitHub stars |
| Category | Other |
| Security | Not scanned |
| Rank | #989 of 1,262 Claude skills; #201 in Other |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 2026-10-16 |
Is little-canary safe to install?
We have not scanned little-canary yet because its SKILL.md could not be fetched. Read the source before installing.
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How do I install little-canary?
- Install with the skills CLI. Works for Claude Code and other agents that read skills.
npx skills add https://github.com/hermes-labs-ai/little-canary --skill little-canary
- Or copy it by hand. Claude Code loads any folder with a SKILL.md from ~/.claude/skills.
git clone https://github.com/hermes-labs-ai/little-canary cp -r little-canary/little-canary ~/.claude/skills/little-canary
- Use it. Claude loads the skill when a task matches its description. You can also name it in your prompt.
Use the little-canary skill to …
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs little-canary for you:
Install the "little-canary" skill from https://github.com/hermes-labs-ai/little-canary into ~/.claude/skills, then tell me in one line what it does.