Nvidia smi tutorial

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: May 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

This appears to be a GPU troubleshooting skill with one safety caveat around manually killing processes, not evidence of hidden or malicious behavior.

Installers should treat this as a normal troubleshooting aid, but only terminate GPU processes they own or are authorized to stop. On shared machines, verify the PID with nvidia-smi and ps, prefer graceful shutdown first, and ask an administrator before stopping another user's job.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 84% confidence
• Finding: The skill explicitly instructs users to run `kill <PID>` to free GPU memory, but provides no caution about verifying process ownership, confirming the target, or the operational impact of terminating jobs. In a GPU troubleshooting context this can cause accidental denial of service, loss of work, or termination of other users' workloads, especially on shared multi-user systems.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.