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Security audit

Adaptive Reasoning

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is not destructive or data-seeking, but it broadly and silently changes agent behavior across a session without clear user control.

Review before installing. This skill does not appear to steal data, run code, or persist on the system, but it is designed to affect every message and silently change reasoning behavior. Install only if you want that session-wide automation and visible reasoning markers, and prefer a version that requires explicit opt-in for reasoning changes.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • 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
Findings (5)

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

Applying the skill to every user message is overly broad and forces persistent interception of all interactions, including trivial or sensitive ones. In a preprocessing skill, this increases the chance of policy drift, unnecessary state changes, and unintended behavior across the entire session.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The automatic activation section directs the agent to enable reasoning silently and without clear scope boundaries. Ambiguous autonomous state changes can override user preferences, conflict with host policies, and make agent behavior less predictable and auditable.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The skill mandates visible reasoning-mode indicators and behavior changes without user opt-in. This can expose internal operating modes, create confusing output artifacts, and pressure the agent to follow skill-specific formatting rather than system or user requirements.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The skill says no external tools are needed, yet elsewhere instructs use of a tool or command to change reasoning state. This inconsistency can mislead operators about the skill's capabilities and encourage unauthorized tool invocation or unsupported control-channel behavior.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The skill is described as a mental preprocessing aid, but it also instructs the agent to alter visible output by appending reasoning icons. This creates hidden policy-to-output coupling that can leak internal state or cause responses to deviate from platform norms without user consent.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.