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Academic Paper Summarizer

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a simple academic paper summarizer description with purpose-aligned local PDF input and summary output behavior, and no evidence of hidden execution, persistence, credential access, or exfiltration.

This appears safe to install from the inspected artifact, but review the Chinese documentation carefully, install only the stated PDF libraries from trusted package sources, and choose output filenames or directories that will not overwrite existing summaries.

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
  • 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
Findings (2)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The natural-language instructions and descriptions in the skill file are entirely in Chinese, which effectively forces a specific language for users reading the skill documentation. Under the stated policy, language constraints should offer user choice or be explicitly justified as region-specific.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
83% confidence
Finding

This markdown file documents commands that write outputs such as summary.md and files under summaries/, which can affect user data if existing files are overwritten. The description does not include any warning or note about output-file creation, overwrite behavior, or choosing safe output paths.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.