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Dacs Archival Finding Aid Drafter

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a focused drafting aid for archival finding aids, with clear limits against publishing, uploading, or inventing sensitive access and rights details.

Before installing, be aware that the skill is intended for professional archival drafting and may process confidential donor terms, access restrictions, PII, or culturally sensitive descriptions in the chat. Use it only when that material is appropriate to discuss in the session, and keep the generated finding aid in draft review until qualified staff verify it.

A.I.G

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

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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 (1)

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 167)May include surrounding context.

md
Conditions Governing Access (DACS 4.1):

- Default to the literal access status the user supplied. Never default to "open" without confirmation.
- For restricted material: state the basis (donor restriction, statutory restriction, third-party privacy, format restriction) and the unrestriction date or condition.
- Statutory examples to surface for confirmation: FERPA (U.S. student records, generally 75 years from creation), HIPAA (U.S. health records, 50 years after death), GDPR / UK DPA where applicable, state public-records laws, donor-imposed time bars.
- For redacted material, name the redaction policy and the reviewing officer.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.