turnstile-spin (skill)SAFE
Skills for teaching agents how to build on Cloudflare.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
End-to-end setup skill for Cloudflare Turnstile. Loads when an agent is asked to add Turnstile, set up CAPTCHA, or protect a form from bots.
SKILL.md is the canonical machine-readable behavior. The hosted prompt at `developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/spin/prompt.md` packages the same behavior for agents that do not have this bundle installed. Product requirements come from the Turnstile documentation.
Layout
f706db26571aOBSERVED · 2026-10-28Install
Commands as the repository documents them. They are shown, not run.
git clone https://github.com/cloudflare/skills ~/.config/cloudflare-skills
Host compatibility
What the documentation claims. We have not run a compatibility test.
| Host | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| codex | mentioned |
What it tells the agent
The instruction file, verbatim from the audited commit — this is the text the model reads, and the surface the audit's instruction layer examines. Quoted here so you can judge it without cloning anything.
---
name: turnstile-spin
description: Set up, repair, or migrate to Cloudflare Turnstile bot verification in an existing frontend and backend, including server-side Siteverify.
---
# Turnstile Spin skill
Turns the prompt "set up Turnstile" into a working end-to-end integration: a widget, frontend snippets at every chosen insertion point, canonical server-side siteverify in the customer's existing backend, and a real validation pass before reporting success.
You are the agent. Run the wizard below by invoking the scripts under `scripts/` and branching on their JSON output. The scripts hold the deterministic logic (API calls, retry/error handling); your job is orchestration, codebase reading, confirmation, and the frontend + backend edits.
This file is the canonical machine-readable behavior. Product requirements come from the [Turnstile documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/index.md), and the hosted prompt must mirror this behavior.
## Framework references
Read the reference for the existing frontend when wiring the integration:
| Frontend | Reference |
|---|---|
| Vanilla HTML | [vanilla-html](references/vanilla-html.md) |
| Next.js App Router | [nextjs-app](references/nextjs-app.md) |
| Next.js Pages Router | [nextjs-pages](references/nextjs-pages.md) |
| Astro | [astro](references/astro.md) |
| SvelteKit | [sveltekit](references/sveltekit.md) |
| Hugo | [hugo](references/hugo.md) |
## When to load this skill
Load when the user's prompt mentions any of:
- "Turnstile", "CAPTCHA", "bot protection"
- "siteverify", "cf-turnstile-response"
- "protect this form", "protect this endpoint", "protect this button", "stop bot signups", "spam signups", "block bots on <target>"
- A specific signup, login, contact form, download, comment, API endpoint, or other user-triggered request combined with "Cloudflare" or "bot"
Do not load for unrelated Cloudflare tasks (Workers, Pages, R2, etc.) unless Turnstile is also mentioned.
## Choose the flow before responding
Inspect the user's prompt before starting the numbered wizard. If it says the widget is already created and provides one or more sitekeys, go directly to the existing-widget flow below. Do not run, summarize, or propose the widget-creation flow. Otherwise, use the numbered creation wizard.
## Conversation flow
The user pasted the prompt. You are in a multi-step dialog. Detect what you can, ask only when you have to, confirm before every irreversible step. Each numbered moment is one agent message. Items marked **[wait for user]** require a user response.
1. **Brief acknowledge.** One sentence: "I'll run Turnstile setup end to end. That's: check auth, scan the codebase, create the widget, embed it where visitor requests need verification, wire server-side siteverify, validate. Proceed?" **[wait for user]** Do NOT present a plan yet. Auth + scan come first.
2. **CLI check.** Spin's helper scripts use `curl` against `api.cloudflare.com`. Account enumeration requires either an explicit `$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID` or a user-approved canonical absolute `WRANGLER_BIN` outside the project with exact `WRANGLER_VERSION`. Never use `npx`, `pnpm exec`, a package script, a project-local binary, or an unapproved executable for a credential-bearing command. Never install Wrangler automatically during the flow.
3. **Auth + scope probe (FIRST irreversible action).** Run `scripts/auth-probe.sh`. If account enumeration needs Wrangler, set `PROJECT_ROOT`, approved canonical `WRANGLER_BIN`, and exact `WRANGLER_VERSION` first. Branch on `status`:
- `ok`: continue to Step 4. The script already picked the account (single-account token, or one matching `$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID`).
- `missing_token` or `missing_scope`: ask the user to create a token at https://dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens → Custom token → permission `Account.Turnstile:Edit` → include the target account in Account Resources. **Do NOT direct them to `wrangler login`** unless wrangler's OAuth scope includes `Account.Turnstile:Edit` (varies by wrangler version). Offer two ways to provide the token without chat, cleanest first:
1. **Export + relaunch** (token enters neither chat nor shell history): `read -rsp 'Cloudflare API token: ' token; echo; export CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN="$token"; unset token`, then restart the agent from that terminal.
2. **Save to file** (token in a user-only file): `umask 077; read -rsp 'Cloudflare API token: ' token; echo; printf '%s' "$token" > ~/.cf-turnstile-token; unset token`, then load it without printing it.
Do not ask the user to paste the API token into chat. When auth is established, re-run `auth-probe.sh` and resume from Step 4.
- `network_failure`: the probe could not reach `api.cloudflare.com`. Show the diagnostic (VPN/proxy, TLS interception, DNS). Do not treat this as a scope problem. Ask the user to fix connectivity, then re-run `auth-probe.sh`.
- `upstream_failure`: the API returned an unexpected response (`http_code` non-4xx). Do not assume the token is bad. Show the code, ask the user to retry after a brief wait, and re-run `auth-probe.sh`.
- `multiple_accounts`: the token covers more than one account and `$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID` is unset. Present the numbered `accounts` list. **[wait for user]** Then export `CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID=<chosen>` and re-run `auth-probe.sh`.
- `account_mismatch`: `$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID` is set but isn't one of the token's accounts. Show the `accounts` list and ask the user to either `unset CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID` or set it to one of those IDs.
4. **Account selection.** If `auth-probe.sh` returned `ok` after a `multiple_accounts` round-trip, this is already done. Otherwise the script picked the single account silently and you continue to Step 5.
5. **Domain.** Always include `localhost` and `127.0.0.1`. For production, scan `package.json` `homepage`, `wrangler.toml`, `README.md`, `AGENTS.md`, git remote. Confirm: "I'll register for `localhost`, `127.0.0.1`, and `<dTrust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | WARN |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- declared (5 observation(s))
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (2)
print(json.dumps({"status":"ok","sitekey":sitekey,"secret":secret}))These tests use a local Git stub and require no network access or credentials. They cover copying to new and empty directories, preserving nonempty destinations, and reporting copy failures with a non
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
f706db26571afull audit observations/trust-audit/skill/cloudflare__turnstile-spin.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this skill has had.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | f706db26571a | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What does the turnstile-spin — cloudflare/skills skill do?
Skills for teaching agents how to build on Cloudflare.
Is turnstile-spin — cloudflare/skills safe to install?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean skill reads B.
What can turnstile-spin — cloudflare/skills access on my machine?
The audit observed that it reaches the network. Each of those is consistent with what it says it does. Secrets in the source: none found.
Which assistants does turnstile-spin — cloudflare/skills work with?
Its documentation mentions codex. That is what the text claims, not a compatibility test we ran.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (f706db26571a), read on 2026-10-28. The repository is watched, and a new audit runs when it changes — this is the first audit.
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