Academic Search

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: May 28, 2026, 5:02 AM
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

This skill is a coherent academic paper search helper, with the main caveat that some broad trigger words may activate it more often than intended.

Reasonable to install for academic literature searches. Be aware that search topics may be sent to external academic/search services, and consider narrowing broad triggers if accidental activation on general research or citation-related requests would be disruptive.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (3)

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The trigger list contains very broad terms such as 'research', 'scholar', and 'cite', which are common in normal conversation and can cause unintended skill activation. Overbroad activation increases the chance that this skill intercepts unrelated requests, overrides more appropriate tooling, or is invoked in contexts where its external-search behavior is unexpected.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: The activation condition 'WHEN the user requests academic paper search, literature review, or research discovery' is broad and leaves substantial room for subjective matching. This can cause the skill to activate on loosely related requests, leading to unintended external queries, confusion in orchestration, or shadowing of other safer or more relevant skills.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: The trigger list includes very broad terms such as "research," "scholar," and "cite," which can match many ordinary user requests outside the intended academic-paper-discovery scope. This can cause the skill to activate unexpectedly, leading to misrouting of user requests, unintended invocation of external search behavior, and expansion of the skill's effective authority beyond what users likely intended.

VirusTotal

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