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Health Guardian

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This health-monitoring skill is purpose-aligned but asks agents to handle sensitive health data and ongoing alerts with inadequate privacy, consent, and safety boundaries.

Review carefully before installing. Only use this with explicit consent from the person whose health data is being processed, keep alerts local unless you intentionally accept third-party messaging risk, and do not treat outputs as medical advice or emergency detection. Check and correct the data paths and missing/inconsistent scripts before relying on it.

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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Findings (6)

Tp4

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The documented behavior claims proactive monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting, but the file mainly describes importing and processing local health exports without a clearly bounded implementation or declared permissions. This mismatch is risky because users may trust the skill with safety-critical health monitoring assumptions while the actual behavior may be incomplete, unaudited, or broader than disclosed, especially given access to sensitive medical data.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Undeclared Tool Scope

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs the agent to access local iCloud/Apple Health export files and write health data into local storage, but it does not declare any tool scope or permissions. In an agent ecosystem, undeclared file read/write capabilities are dangerous because they bypass least-privilege expectations and can expose or modify highly sensitive health information without explicit operator approval.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding

The skill presents automated anomaly detection and alerting for human health, including fever, heart rate, sleep, medication inference, and disability-related conditions, without a clear warning that outputs are not medical advice and may affect decision-making. In a caregiving context this is more dangerous because false positives or false negatives could delay treatment, cause panic, or drive harmful self-management decisions.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The configuration example includes an alert_channel set to Telegram for health anomalies, but the skill does not warn that this may transmit protected or highly sensitive health information through a third-party messaging service. In the context of chronic-condition monitoring, that omission can lead to unintentional privacy breaches, metadata leakage, or insecure handling of medical alerts.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The manifest advertises Apple Health integration and proactive alerts, which implies access to highly sensitive health data, but it does not disclose any privacy, consent, or data-handling considerations. In a health-monitoring skill, omission of these warnings can mislead deployers or users about the sensitivity of the capability and increase the risk of unsafe adoption or inappropriate data access decisions.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

This script automatically reads highly sensitive health data from local Apple Health export locations and persists it into the skill's own data store without any consent prompt, disclosure, retention control, or access restriction visible in the code. Because the skill is explicitly designed for chronic-condition monitoring, the data includes especially sensitive medical signals, increasing privacy and compliance risk if the data is stored unexpectedly, retained indefinitely, or exposed through other parts of the system.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.