Security audit

discourse

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a simple community-discussion search helper with no bundled code, persistence, or credential access.

Before installing, be aware that the skill may activate for broad community-opinion research requests and will steer the agent toward external community sources like HN, Reddit, Lobsters, and tech blogs. It does not show evidence of local data access, credential use, or persistent changes.

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

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 (1)

Vague Triggers

Medium

Confidence: 94% confidence
Finding: The trigger phrase "gathering practitioner opinions on a technology or approach" is broad enough to match many ordinary research or comparison requests that are not specifically asking for this skill. That can cause the agent to invoke this skill unexpectedly, expanding data access and steering behavior toward external community-source retrieval when the user may have intended a narrower or different workflow.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.