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USB: A trust layer for AI skills and MCP servers

11 points by peepsick ago | 3 comments

peepsick |next [-]

I kept seeing AI skills that were easy to install but hard to inspect. USB is my attempt at a trust layer: it discovers capabilities in a repo, checks what they claim against what they actually contain, and observes MCP servers before letting them into a workflow. The project is still evolving, but the scanner, MCP probe, installer, and test corpus are all in the repo.

jiaosdjf |next |previous [-]

The problem is AI generates so much text that we can’t even read what is claimed on a landing page. Most people are installing things they don’t even read, so verifying against what is claimed, while great, has limitations.

peepsick |root |parent [-]

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ryukoposting |previous [-]

Why would you name it USB? This just makes it harder to search for and harder to communicate about. Just name it... I don't know, something else.

peepsick |root |parent [-]

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