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Security audit

Arrow's Information Paradox

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a strategy guidance skill for handling information disclosure in deals, with no executable code or hidden system access.

Before installing, understand that this skill provides business and disclosure strategy guidance, not legal advice. For patents, NDAs, escrow, M&A, or trade-secret decisions, users should involve qualified counsel before relying on the plan in a real transaction.

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 (1)

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 138)May include surrounding context.

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- The reproducible core (the thing a competitor could copy) is scheduled for an *early*, low-commitment disclosure rung.
- An NDA is being treated as full protection, with no defense against independent reinvention or an enforcement plan.
- A "demo" or "trial" would require handing over real access, source, or the full method rather than demonstrating outcomes.
- The patent-vs-secret choice is being made by default or habit, without asking whether the advantage is reverse-engineerable and how long it will last.
- The buyer keeps asking to advance disclosure "to build the relationship" while making no reciprocal commitment — and the seller is tempted to comply.
- As a buyer: you are being asked to pay on the seller's word, with no intermediary certification, escrow, or verifiable proxy for what is withheld.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.