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Abductive Reasoning

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a reasoning-only skill that guides hypothesis comparison and does not install code, access data, persist itself, or perform actions on the user's system.

Safe to install as a thinking aid. For medical, financial, business, outage, or investigative use, treat its output as provisional analysis and require appropriate human review before taking real-world action.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (2)

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
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.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 3)May include surrounding context.

md
---
name: abductive-reasoning
description: "Activate when: user says 'what's the most likely explanation,' 'why did this happen,' 'we think it's X but not sure,' 'we only have one theory,' 'the team has converged on an answer without checking alternatives,' or when diagnosing a bug/outage/symptom/anomaly under uncertainty.
  Do NOT activate when: the problem is purely deductive or mathematical (direct proof, not hypothesis); the situation allows direct observation or measurement that bypasses inference. More: deciqai.com/c/abductive-reasoning"
---

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
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.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 74)May include surrounding context.

md
---
name: abductive-reasoning
description: "Activate when: user says 'what's the most likely explanation,' 'why did this happen,' 'we think it's X but not sure,' 'we only have one theory,' 'the team has converged on an answer without checking alternatives,' or when diagnosing a bug/outage/symptom/anomaly under uncertainty.
  Do NOT activate when: the problem is purely deductive or mathematical (direct proof, not hypothesis); the situation allows direct observation or measurement that bypasses inference. More: deciqai.com/c/abductive-reasoning"
---

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.