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Security audit

Cognitive Science Landscape

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is mostly a coherent cognitive-coaching guide, but it asks agents to persist real user-derived failure patterns back into the skill file without consent or safeguards.

Review this skill before installing or using it in a writable skill directory. The cognitive guidance itself is ordinary, but agents should not paste real user failure patterns into SKILL.md; treat packaged skill files as read-only or only add generalized, reviewed, anonymized observations outside the runtime skill context.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • 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
Findings (1)

T02 · Agent Memory Poisoning

Warning
Location
SKILL.md:95
Finding

Persistent Agent Memory Poisoning Through User-Derived Failure Patterns

Content
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Remediation
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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

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.