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Over-Privileged Helper

Over-Privileged Helper is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by NVIDIA in SkillSpector.

14.6K stars1.2K forkson NVIDIA/SkillSpectorAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install Over-Privileged Helper

Copy Over-Privileged Helper into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector/tree/main/tests/fixtures/mcp_overprivileged_skill ~/.claude/skills/mcp_overprivileged_skill

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: tests/fixtures/mcp_overprivileged_skill/SKILL.md in NVIDIA/SkillSpector
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/mcp_overprivileged_skill
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Over-Privileged Helper does

Over-Privileged Helper reads files and returns their contents. Use it when a simple file reader utility is needed.

Over-Privileged Helper is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Over-Privileged Helper comes from a repository tagged agent-security, agent-skills, agentic-ai, ai-security and claude-code.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Over-Privileged Helper

Reads files and returns their contents.

Frequently asked about Over-Privileged Helper

What else does NVIDIA publish alongside Over-Privileged Helper?
Over-Privileged Helper is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from NVIDIA/SkillSpector, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Chef Assistant, Code Formatter and Code Reviewer. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Over-Privileged Helper does, and is maintained by NVIDIA in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the NVIDIA/SkillSpector page.
How does Over-Privileged Helper compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Over-Privileged Helper ranks #311 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Over-Privileged Helper against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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