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Academic Research Skills

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a simple local academic paper template helper, with minor quality and disclosure issues but no evidence of malicious or high-impact behavior.

Before installing, understand that this appears to be a basic local template generator rather than a full academic research workflow. It saves paper templates as JSON files in its own data directory and includes Chinese-language instructions and video references.

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
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • 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 (2)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The file prominently presents the skill name and description in Chinese only on this line, with no indication that users may choose another language or locale. This can violate language/locale policy expectations when a skill imposes a specific language without user opt-in.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The module documentation says this implements an academic research workflow covering plan, research, write, and review, and the run() docstring similarly describes running that workflow. In reality, the code only constructs a fixed set of paper sections, optionally reloads a prior JSON file, and writes the template back to disk without performing planning, research, or review steps.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.