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Solopreneur Assistant

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed solo-business assistant template, with expected but privacy-sensitive optional email/calendar use and user-configured recurring reviews.

Before installing, decide which files and integrations the agent may read. Connect email, calendar, revenue APIs, or persistent memory only with least-privilege access, and require confirmation before the agent sends, deletes, archives, or externally shares anything.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Rogue AgentSelf-Modification, Session Persistence
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding
The phrase 'Just deliver this skill to your agent' and the surrounding description imply very broad applicability but do not specify when the skill should activate or what inputs should trigger its behavior. In a markdown skill description, this lack of trigger specificity can lead to unintended or over-eager use across general business conversations.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
The skill promotes email/calendar access and automated inbox triage for a solo-business assistant, which can expose highly sensitive personal and business data without any concrete privacy, retention, or consent safeguards. In this context, the agent may process confidential communications, financial details, and schedule information, increasing the risk of unintended disclosure or overcollection.

Session Persistence

Medium
Category
Rogue Agent
Content
### Step 4: Configure the Weekly Review

Add to your `HEARTBEAT.md` or create a cron job for Friday afternoons (OpenClaw only — other platforms use Option B/heartbeat):

```markdown
## Weekly Review (Fridays)
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding
Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.