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academy-guide

> Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy (academy.claude.com), Anthropic's learning hub. Trigger on: "how do I", "how can I", "ge

Overall
72
Trust
67
Utility
70
Momentum
89

Install caution

Needs manual review

Risk: Medium

Source: Anthropic Skills

Path: skills/academy-guide/SKILL.md

Review flags: filesystem/home-directory access, network access or external URLs. These are review signals, not definitive security judgments; inspect before installing.

Required permissions

  • • Network/API usage
  • • Filesystem/home access

Permissions are inferred from SKILL.md text only. They are review prompts, not guarantees about runtime behavior.

Risk flags explained

filesystem_write_or_home_accessmedium

Mentions filesystem writes, deletes, home-directory paths, or config/key locations.

network_accessmedium

Mentions external URLs, network APIs, downloads, or HTTP client usage.

Score explanation

Trust

  • • Trust starts at 90 before review-signal penalties and metadata bonuses.
  • • Risk-signal penalty: -25 from 2 detected flag(s).
  • • Metadata bonus: +2 from author/version/description fields.

Utility

  • • Utility starts at 55 and rewards clear descriptions, runnable examples, and explicit setup needs.
  • • Description present: yes.
  • • Command examples detected: 0.
  • • Environment variables detected: 0.

Momentum

  • • Momentum starts at 45 and uses public repo activity signals.
  • • Recent commit activity: latest repo update was 1 day(s) ago.
  • • Recent commit volume: 3 commit(s) in the lookback window (+9).
  • • Source has strong public adoption: 177800 stars.
  • • Fork activity suggests reuse: 21066 forks.

Overall

  • • Overall score weights trust 45%, utility 35%, and momentum 20%.

Detected signals

Env vars

None detected in SKILL.md text scan.

Commands

None detected in SKILL.md text scan.

URLs

  • • https://academy.claude.com
  • • https://academy.claude.com/`
  • • https://academy.claude.com/`.
  • • https://academy.claude.com/assets/data/catalog.json
  • • https://academy.claude.com/claude
  • • https://academy.claude.com/code
  • • https://academy.claude.com/cowork
  • • https://academy.claude.com/fluency
  • • https://academy.claude.com/platform
  • • https://academy.claude.com/resources

Provenance & evidence

SkillRadar makes each review traceable back to the exact source path, source blob SHA, scanner version, and text-only policy that produced the report.

source
github.com/anthropics/skills@main
path
skills/academy-guide/SKILL.md
source blob SHA
cefeaeb20cc29a803af0335d7c7155b066d8770f
scanner version
0.3.0
security model
text_only_no_execute_no_install_no_secrets
scan policy
Fetched and scored as text only; no install, no execution, no runtime loading.

Evidence snippets

filesystem_write_or_home_access

…h is weak or tangential, say nothing about the catalog. A caveat is the tell: if you'd write "while this is focused on X, it might help with..." or "this doesn't cover exactly tha…

network_access

…ion it naturally at the end of your normal answer. All content lives on [Claude Academy](https://academy.claude.com), Anthropic's learning hub. It offers three kinds of content: - **Cour…

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Methodology note

SkillRadar scans SKILL.md as hostile text only. It does not execute commands, install packages, or load third-party skills.

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