Ae1
High
- Category
- analysis-evasion
- Confidence
- 100% confidence
- Finding
Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
- Content
md - Keep `SKILL.md` concise and procedural.
Security audit
Adaptive Skill Factory
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
Overview
The skill is not malicious, but it can implicitly install, create, update, or delete agent skills with broad triggers and limited user-control guidance.
Install only if you want the agent to actively manage skills for recurring workflows. Before use, require explicit confirmation for installing, creating, updating, or deleting skills, and avoid shared paths like D:\internal-hub\skills unless you intend cross-role persistent changes.
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
- Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
- 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
Findings (3)
Vague Triggers
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 89% confidence
- Finding
The description says to use the skill when "a workflow gap appears" and includes broad conditions like "a task is repetitive" or when "an existing skill might save time." These activation cues are open-ended and lack explicit constraints or negative examples, which could cause the skill to be invoked in many ordinary situations rather than a narrowly defined context.
- Content
Vague Triggers
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 91% confidence
- Finding
The default prompt uses very broad routing language ('decide whether this task should reuse, install, or create a skill'), which can match many ordinary tasks and cause the skill to be invoked outside narrow, intended conditions. In combination with allow_implicit_invocation: true, this increases the chance of unintended autonomous skill discovery/installation/creation, expanding the attack surface and enabling risky prompt steering through normal workflow language.
- Content