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Crisis Management & Communications Playbook

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a crisis-management guidance skill made of markdown playbooks and templates, with no code execution, persistence, or hidden data access.

This skill is appropriate for structured crisis planning and drafting, but users should treat its legal, regulatory, healthcare, finance, and data-breach timelines as starting points and verify them with qualified counsel or current authoritative sources before acting.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (1)

Anti-Refusal Statement

High
Category
Anti-Refusal
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 38)May include surrounding context.

md
### 12 Early Warning Signals

Monitor these continuously — crises rarely appear without warning:

1. **Customer complaint spike** — 3x normal volume in 24 hours
2. **Social media velocity** — brand mentions increasing >200% hour-over-hour

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.