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Dataify Instagram Comment By Post URL

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed Dataify task submitter for Instagram comment collection, with expected token use and external API submission.

Install this only if you intend to submit Instagram post-comment collection jobs through Dataify. Review the post URLs before submission, understand that task parameters are sent to Dataify under your account, and be careful with any saved DATAIFY_API_TOKEN because the skill can reuse it for future submissions.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Findings (5)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly instructs the agent to read a locally saved environment token and make outbound network requests, but no declared permissions are present to signal those capabilities. This creates a transparency and governance gap: users or hosting platforms may not realize the skill can access secrets and contact an external service, increasing the risk of unintended token use or policy bypass.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding
The trigger description is unusually broad and includes many generic scraping/collection phrases, which can cause the skill to activate when a user did not explicitly intend to use this third-party data collection workflow. In context, that increases the chance of unintended submission of Instagram URLs and related task parameters to Dataify, creating consent, privacy, and workflow-integrity risks rather than direct code-execution risk.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs the agent to submit Instagram post-comment collection jobs to a third-party service but does not clearly warn users that URLs, collected comment data, and associated task metadata will be transmitted to Dataify. In this context, the omission is security-relevant because users may unknowingly initiate external data processing that has privacy, compliance, or terms-of-service implications.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
The skill enables implicit invocation while exposing a broad default prompt and metadata that can match loosely phrased user requests about Instagram comment collection, task status, token configuration, or troubleshooting. This creates a real risk that the agent will invoke the skill without sufficiently explicit user intent, potentially causing unintended third-party API actions, data collection requests, or handling of sensitive configuration flows.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Content
- If the user provides a token in the request, use it for this run.
- If no token is provided, first check whether `DATAIFY_API_TOKEN` is already saved locally in the environment.
- If `DATAIFY_API_TOKEN` is saved locally, use it without asking the user to re-enter the token.
- If no token is available locally, tell the user they need to provide a Dataify API TOKEN.
- If the user does not have an API TOKEN, tell them they can register or log in at [Dataify](https://dashboard.dataify.com/login?utm_source=skill) to get one.
- If the user already has an API TOKEN, tell them it is available in the top-right area of [Dataify](https://dashboard.dataify.com?utm_source=skill).
Confidence
84% confidence
Finding
without asking

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.