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Security audit

Community Demand Prospecting

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed community research and outreach assistant that drafts human-reviewed Reddit/X replies and does not include executable code, persistence, or hidden data handling.

Before installing, be aware this skill is meant for manual research and drafting, not automated posting. Review any generated Reddit or X replies yourself, follow community rules, disclose affiliation when promoting your own product, and avoid using it for high-volume outreach.

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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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
Findings (4)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The trigger example "Help me find users for my product." is broad and could match many generic requests beyond this skill's intended scope of community demand prospecting. The file provides example triggers, but this phrase lacks narrow constraints or exclusion conditions, increasing the chance of unintended invocation.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Content
Treat these as possibly useful but not urgent:

- venting about pain without asking for help
- discussing process quality problems
- mentioning a workaround that is clearly unsatisfying
- asking broad market questions without immediate action
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
The reference recommends searching for phrases like “any easier way”, “tool for X”, and “alternative to Y”, which are generic expressions used in many unrelated contexts. Because the file does not define narrower scope constraints or exclusion examples, these triggers could match large volumes of irrelevant everyday discussion and cause unintended skill activation or poor targeting.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
Phrases such as “need help with ...” and “looking for ...” are common conversational patterns that occur far outside product-buying or switching intent. The file does not provide guardrails distinguishing genuine purchase intent from general help-seeking, making the trigger scope ambiguous.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.