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Security audit

add-educational-comments

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill guides an agent to add educational comments to user-selected code files and does not show hidden, persistent, or unrelated behavior.

Before installing, understand that this skill is meant to edit files you choose by adding comments, potentially increasing file length substantially. Review the resulting diffs before keeping changes, especially in files where extra comments could affect readability or generated output.

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

Anti-Refusal Statement

High
Category
Anti-Refusal
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Skill instructs the agent to never refuse or to always comply. Suppressing the agent's ability to decline removes a core safety control and enables downstream harmful requests to succeed.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 18)May include surrounding context.

md
- Add practical insights and best practices for intermediate users
- Offer deeper context (performance, architecture, language internals) for advanced users
- Suggest improvements only when they meaningfully support understanding
- Always obey the **Educational Commenting Rules**

## Objectives

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.