Task Quest

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

Task Quest is a local gamification skill for task tracking, with some documentation inconsistencies users should clarify before relying on disable behavior.

Install this only in a workspace where you want smart-tasks gamified. Review the init script and integration diffs before applying them, and decide explicitly that active:false should stop all tracking if that is your expectation. To remove it later, delete task-quest/ and revert any cron, AGENTS.md, or HEARTBEAT.md changes.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
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)

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium

Confidence: 94% confidence
Finding: The skill contains contradictory instructions about behavior while deactivated: one section says tracking continues during inactivity, while best practices say all quest-state updates stop when inactive. This inconsistency can cause unauthorized state changes, privacy surprises, and unreliable automation because an agent may continue recording user activity despite an explicit opt-out.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium

Confidence: 95% confidence
Finding: The document says the skill does not directly modify workspace files, but later instructs cron reconfiguration, manual edits to AGENTS.md and HEARTBEAT.md, and automatic updates to task-quest state files. This mismatch can mislead users and reviewers about the scope of changes, reducing informed consent and making unsafe configuration changes more likely.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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