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Growth Autopilot

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is coherent, but it should be reviewed because it can guide automated ad budget and bidding changes without a clear human approval gate.

Install only if you want an agent to help design operational paid-media automation policies. Keep it in advisory or monitoring-only mode unless explicit human approval, budget caps, rollback limits, audit logging, and platform-specific execution permissions are enforced outside the skill.

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)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill does not prominently warn users that its outputs may influence live advertising spend through budget shifts, bid changes, freezes, and rollbacks. In a system that may operationalize skill outputs, missing this warning can lead to users authorizing or relying on impactful automation without understanding financial and business risk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The activation conditions describe broad growth-orchestration scenarios but do not clearly separate this skill from other ads, analytics, or strategy skills. That ambiguity increases the chance that an agent routes routine advisory requests into a workflow that produces autonomous operational policies for live campaigns.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The trigger keywords are broad enough to match many ordinary marketing prompts, which can cause this high-impact automation skill to activate when a user may have intended a less autonomous planning skill. In this context, accidental activation is risky because the skill is designed to recommend budget, bid, scale, freeze, and rollback actions affecting live ad spend.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
85% 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.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 69)May include surrounding context.

md
- Keep bid logic aligned with platform optimization objective.

## Constraints And Guardrails
- Do not auto-approve risky policy-sensitive creative changes.
- Keep manual override path always available.
- Every auto action must map to an auditable rule.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.