stackhint runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 21 Oct 2026.
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…nt|tool|user)>|run (this|the following) command|(curl|wget|iwr|irm|invoke-webrequest) [^\n]{0,200}\| ?(ba|z)?sh|\| ?iex|rm -rf|exfiltrat|send (the|your|all) (token|secret|key|password|credential)s?)/i;
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const cached = newestSubdir(path.join(pluginsDir, 'cache', market, plugin));
execFile(
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