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Verify Claim

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill coherently verifies factual claims using a disclosed external service and does not include hidden code, persistence, or privilege escalation.

Before installing, users should understand that factual claims may be sent to a third-party verification service. Use it for public, non-sensitive facts and avoid submitting confidential business information, personal data, secrets, or private/internal claims.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs the agent to send user-provided claim text to a third-party verification service but does not require explicit user consent or a warning at the point of transmission. Because claims may contain sensitive business, personal, or contextual information, this can cause unintended data disclosure to an external service even if the feature is meant for legitimate fact-checking.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

This line contains a concrete instruction to POST claim contents to an external domain, which creates a direct exfiltration path for user-supplied text. In agent contexts, users may phrase claims with embedded sensitive details, so blindly forwarding them to a remote API can leak confidential information outside the trust boundary.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 48)May include surrounding context.

If no MCP tool is available, call the API:

bash
curl -X POST https://verify.agentutil.net/v1/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"claim": "The USD to EUR exchange rate is 0.92"}'

Unbounded Resource Access

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill allows unbounded resource consumption (API calls, storage, compute). Without rate limits or quotas, a compromised or misbehaving agent can cause denial-of-service or cost overruns.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 109)May include surrounding context.

md
## Pricing

- **Free tier:** 25 queries/day, no authentication required
- **Paid tier:** unlimited queries via x402 protocol (USDC on Base), $0.004/query

## Agent Discovery

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.