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Security audit

Cognitive Evolution Stages

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a text-only learning/coaching skill with no executable code, credential access, or hidden system changes.

Review whether the coaching framework fits your use case, and avoid letting an agent paste private user examples back into shared skill files or pull requests without explicit review.

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
  • 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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (3)

Harmful Content Injection

Critical
Category
Prompt Injection
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

This content may contain harmful instructions that could cause physical harm if followed. CRITICAL: Review carefully before use.

Content

Scanner excerpt · examples/marie-curie-scientific-development-1896-1911.md (reported line 13)May include surrounding context.

md
**Stage 2 (模仿 — Imitate):** She replicated Becquerel's methods to verify his findings, using similar equipment and procedures. She adapted his approach to measure the electrical conductivity of air ionized by radioactive materials, using an electrometer developed by her husband Pierre.

**Stage 3 (理解/应用 — Understand/Apply):** The critical Stage 2→3 jump: Curie systematically compared uranium with thorium (discovered independently by Gerhard Carl Schmidt in 1898). She made deliberate trade-off decisions about measurement methods and concluded that radioactivity was a property of the atom itself — not of molecular compounds — a genuinely novel interpretation that contradicted prevailing assumptions.

**Stage 4 (创造 — Create):** The isolation of polonium and radium (1898) required inventing new methods. There was no existing protocol for isolating previously unknown elements from uranium ore. She and Pierre created the methodology. She then distilled the principle: radioactivity as a characteristic of atomic structure, not chemical bonding.

> "I proposed to examine whether other substances besides uranium compounds were capable of emitting similar Becquerel rays. The results of the examination of the various compounds showed that the property of emitting these rays is a specific property of the uranium atom."
> — Curie, M. (1903). *Radioactive Substances* (doctoral thesis), translated and reprinted. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107855

**Stage 5 (进化 — Evolve):** Curie's Nobel Prize lectures (1903, 1911) demonstrate Stage 5: she reflected on the entire trajectory of radioactivity research, identified what her framework explained and what it did not, and proposed the next generation of questions — restarting the acquisition cycle at a higher level. Her 1911 Nobel lecture for Chemistry explicitly revisited and refined the framework she had proposed in her 1903 Physics lecture.

Harmful Content Injection

Critical
Category
Prompt Injection
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

This content may contain harmful instructions that could cause physical harm if followed. CRITICAL: Review carefully before use.

Content

Scanner excerpt · examples/marie-curie-scientific-development-1896-1911.md (reported line 20)May include surrounding context.

md
**Stage 2 (模仿 — Imitate):** She replicated Becquerel's methods to verify his findings, using similar equipment and procedures. She adapted his approach to measure the electrical conductivity of air ionized by radioactive materials, using an electrometer developed by her husband Pierre.

**Stage 3 (理解/应用 — Understand/Apply):** The critical Stage 2→3 jump: Curie systematically compared uranium with thorium (discovered independently by Gerhard Carl Schmidt in 1898). She made deliberate trade-off decisions about measurement methods and concluded that radioactivity was a property of the atom itself — not of molecular compounds — a genuinely novel interpretation that contradicted prevailing assumptions.

**Stage 4 (创造 — Create):** The isolation of polonium and radium (1898) required inventing new methods. There was no existing protocol for isolating previously unknown elements from uranium ore. She and Pierre created the methodology. She then distilled the principle: radioactivity as a characteristic of atomic structure, not chemical bonding.

> "I proposed to examine whether other substances besides uranium compounds were capable of emitting similar Becquerel rays. The results of the examination of the various compounds showed that the property of emitting these rays is a specific property of the uranium atom."
> — Curie, M. (1903). *Radioactive Substances* (doctoral thesis), translated and reprinted. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107855

**Stage 5 (进化 — Evolve):** Curie's Nobel Prize lectures (1903, 1911) demonstrate Stage 5: she reflected on the entire trajectory of radioactivity research, identified what her framework explained and what it did not, and proposed the next generation of questions — restarting the acquisition cycle at a higher level. Her 1911 Nobel lecture for Chemistry explicitly revisited and refined the framework she had proposed in her 1903 Physics lecture.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

This markdown file contains natural-language guidance describing the framework's organizational vocabulary using Chinese terms only (e.g. '5阶段11层级' and '获取/模仿/理解应用/创造/进化'). Under the policy rule for language/locale violations, this is a concern because the file does not indicate user opt-in, offer an alternative language, or justify why Chinese is required here.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.