neo4j-getting-started-skill
Orchestrates zero-to-running-app in 8 stages — prerequisites → context → provision → model → load → explore → query → build. Each stage reads its own reference file. Supports HITL and fully autonomous operation. Use when starting a new Neo4j project from scratch, provisioning Aura, generating synthetic data, building a notebook or app, or running the full onboarding pipeline. Time budget ≤15 min autonomous, ≤90 min HITL. Does NOT cover Cypher query authoring — use neo4j-cypher-skill. Does NOT cover driver upgrades or Cypher migration — use neo4j-migration-skill. Does NOT cover CLI/admin tasks on an existing DB — use neo4j-cli-tools-skill.
85
92%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
83%
2.67xAverage score across 2 eval scenarios
High
Do not use without reviewing
Security
1 high severity finding. You should review these findings carefully before considering using this skill.
W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
What this means
The skill handles credentials insecurely by requiring the agent to include secret values verbatim in its generated output. This exposes credentials in the agent’s context and conversation history, creating a risk of data exfiltration.
Why it was flagged
The skill explicitly instructs the agent to write `.env`/`aura.env` and to "write `.env` from user credentials" (i.e., capture user API keys/passwords and place them into generated files), which requires the LLM to accept and emit secret values verbatim into output files — an exfiltration risk.
Low
Low-risk findings.
1 low severity finding. Worth noting, but not necessarily harmful.
W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
What this means
The skill fetches instructions or code from an external URL at runtime, and the fetched content directly controls the agent’s prompts or executes code. This dynamic dependency allows the external source to modify the agent’s behavior without any changes to the skill itself.
Why it was flagged
The skill includes runtime commands that download and execute remote code: a curl download of the neo4j-mcp binary ("https://github.com/neo4j/mcp/releases/latest/download/neo4j-mcp-${PLATFORM}-${ARCH}") which is made executable and run, and a raw GitHub Cypher file piped into cypher-shell ("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-graph-examples/movies/main/data/movies.cypher"), so external content would be fetched and executed during skill runtime.
- Repository
- neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills
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- Audited
- Security analysis
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