critical-article-writer

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to use a disclosed third-party AI API for its stated content-generation purpose, but users should treat submitted prompts as shared externally.

Install only if you are comfortable sending prompts, drafts, and related context to SkillBoss API Hub and any downstream model providers it uses. Avoid including secrets, regulated personal data, or confidential business material unless your organization has approved that service.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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 (5)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly instructs users to send prompts and contextual inputs to a third-party API, but it does not clearly warn that user-provided content will leave the local environment or describe any privacy implications. In an agent skill context, this omission is security-relevant because users may provide sensitive drafts, proprietary analysis, or internal business information without informed consent.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
SKILLBOSS_API_KEY = os.environ["SKILLBOSS_API_KEY"]

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {SKILLBOSS_API_KEY}",
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
requests.post( "https://

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
SKILLBOSS_API_KEY = os.environ["SKILLBOSS_API_KEY"]

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {SKILLBOSS_API_KEY}",
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
requests.post( "https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot", headers={ "Authorization": f"Bearer {SKILLBOSS_API_KEY}", "Content-Type": "application/json" }, json=

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
## Integration with SkillBoss API Hub

This skill is powered by **SkillBoss API Hub** (`https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot`), which automatically routes requests to the optimal large language model for content generation tasks.

**Environment Variable Required:**
- `SKILLBOSS_API_KEY` — unified API key for all SkillBoss API Hub capabilities
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
https://api.heybossai.com/

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
SKILLBOSS_API_KEY = os.environ["SKILLBOSS_API_KEY"]

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {SKILLBOSS_API_KEY}",
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
https://api.heybossai.com/

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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