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Hardening API Scan Boundaries in skill-scanner, with sqry as the Review Map (opens in new tab)

On 14 June 2026 I cloned cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner, set up the locked uv environment, and worked through one small but important question: what does it take to make the REST API safer when the API can scan local directories, accept uploaded ZIP files, run optional analyzers, and queue batch work in the background? I am not pretending this is a universal API security methodology, or that one branch makes a whole product "secure" in the abstract. This is a narrower story, and I think the n...

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