What is paranoid?
paranoid is a Claude skill by kulchankas that pentests your running app: find, prove, patch, re-verify. It is listed under Engineering practice and has 48 GitHub stars.
| Type | Claude skill |
|---|---|
| Author | kulchankas |
| Repository | kulchankas/paranoid |
| Popularity | 48 GitHub stars |
| Category | Engineering practice |
| Security | Low risk (92/100) |
| Rank | #978 of 1,262 Claude skills; #170 in Engineering practice |
| SKILL.md length | 106 lines |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-09-27 |
Is paranoid safe to install?
paranoid scores 92/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 7 of 9 checks.
Skill results come from a static scan of its SKILL.md for instruction overrides, hidden actions, risky commands and credential access.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No instruction-override phrases | Pass |
| No hidden actions | Pass |
| No pipe-to-shell installers | Pass |
| No obfuscated code | Pass |
| No destructive commands | Pass |
| Reads keys or credentials | Note |
| No network requests | Pass |
| Runs shell commands | Note |
| Installs no packages | Pass |
What the scan matched
- credentials:
credentials - shell:
child_process
How do I install paranoid?
- Install with the skills CLI. Works for Claude Code and other agents that read skills.
npx skills add https://github.com/kulchankas/paranoid --skill paranoid
- Or copy it by hand. Claude Code loads any folder with a SKILL.md from ~/.claude/skills.
git clone https://github.com/kulchankas/paranoid cp -r paranoid/skills/paranoid ~/.claude/skills/paranoid
- Use it. Claude loads the skill when a task matches its description. You can also name it in your prompt.
Use the paranoid skill to …
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs paranoid for you:
Install the "paranoid" skill from https://github.com/kulchankas/paranoid/tree/main/skills/paranoid into ~/.claude/skills, then tell me in one line what it does.