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Security audit

Task Extractor

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is a coherent task tracker, but it is too eager to execute broadly detected or ambiguous task lists and persist them locally.

Install only if you want the agent to aggressively turn compound messages into executable task queues. Avoid using it on prompts that contain secrets, personal data, or quoted instructions you only want analyzed; review and delete TASK_QUEUE.md when it is no longer needed.

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

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The activation logic is intentionally over-broad: it triggers on 'ANY' message with 3+ actionable items and even says to activate when uncertain. In a security-sensitive agent, this can cause the skill to intercept benign or ambiguous user input, restructure it, and begin persistence/execution workflows without clear user consent, increasing the chance of unintended actions and data handling.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs the agent to write user-derived task content to workspace/TASK_QUEUE.md before execution and to keep using that file as the source of truth, but it never requires notifying the user or minimizing what is stored. This creates a privacy and data-retention risk because sensitive instructions, credentials, personal data, or internal project details from compound prompts may be persisted to disk unnecessarily.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.