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Buddhist Counsel

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is purpose-aligned, but it should be reviewed carefully because it sends sensitive counseling text to a paid third-party API and uses a third-party payment command without explicit consent safeguards.

Review before installing. Use this only if users explicitly agree to send their counseling text to Anicca's external API and to pay $0.01 USDC per request. Prefer a sandboxed environment, a limited-balance wallet, redacted situation text, and verified installation of the `awal` package rather than automatic `npx` downloads.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Insecure DependenciesIntroduces malicious components through unsafe dependency sources
  • 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
Findings (1)

T08 · Insecure Dependencies

Warning
Location
SKILL.md:12
Finding

Unverified Third-Party Package Execution with Wallet and Sensitive-Data Access

Content
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# if not authenticated npx awal@2.0.3 balance # check USDC balance (mainnet) ``` ```bash npx awal@2.0.3 x402 pay \ https://anicca-proxy-production.up.railway.app/api/x402/buddhist-counsel \ -X POST \ -d '{"who_is_suffering":"my_human","situation":"","language":"en"}' ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill directs agents to execute the third-party `awal@2.0.3` package using `npx`. Depending on the local npm configuration and cache state, `npx` can retrieve executable package content from a remote registry and run it immediately. The Skill does not specify package-integrity verification, a reviewed local installation, an approved registry, or a trusted package hash. The package is used for authentication, querying a cryptocurrency balance, generating or handling x402 payment authorization, and submitting request data. This gives the dependency access to a security-sensitive workflow involving an email identity, wallet-related operations, USDC payments on Base Mainnet, and potentially sensitive mental-health descriptions. The external API invocation is disclosed and is part of the stated functionality; there is no evidence in the audited file of covert exfiltration or a deliberately malicious dependency. Nevertheless, the unverified execution model creates a supply-chain trust boundary that cannot be independently audited from this repository. ### Attack Path 1. An agent follows the Skill prerequisite and invokes `npx awal@2.0.3`. 2. If the package is not already available locally, `npx` retrieves executable content from the configured npm registry. 3. A compromised publisher account, registry, package ...[truncated 1550 chars]
Remediation
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SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Missing User Warnings

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The skill handles highly sensitive mental-health disclosures but does not prominently warn that user-provided situation text will be transmitted to a third-party paid endpoint. This creates a serious privacy and consent issue, especially for disclosures involving OCD, depression, crisis indicators, or other health-related information that users may not expect to leave the local agent context.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Anti-Refusal Statement

High
Category
Anti-Refusal
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 103)May include surrounding context.

md
"persuasion_strategy": {
    "framework": "ACT + MI OARS",
    "techniques_used": [
      "Reflect (MI): Acknowledging exhaustion without judgment",
      "Defusion (ACT): Separating the person from the compulsion",
      "Tiny action (Nudge Theory): 'Just notice' instead of 'stop checking'"
    ]

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The trigger list is extremely broad and includes common terms like anxiety, depression, suffering, and mindfulness, which can cause the skill to activate in many ordinary conversations. In this context, accidental invocation is especially risky because the skill sends sensitive mental-health content to an external paid API and may influence responses in high-sensitivity situations.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.