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Security audit

options-strategist

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed options-analysis helper that uses a Finskills API key and ticker-based market-data calls, with no evidence of hidden code, persistence, or account actions.

Before installing, understand that the skill uses Finskills for market data and your ticker lookups plus API key will be visible to that provider. Avoid putting account numbers, broker credentials, private portfolio details, or personal financial information into prompts, and verify any options recommendation independently before trading.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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 (1)

Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The README states the skill is powered by a third-party API and requires an API key, but it does not clearly disclose that user prompts, including ticker symbols and market outlook, will be sent to Finskills for processing. This is a real transparency and privacy issue because users may assume analysis happens locally and may share sensitive trading intent or portfolio-related information without informed consent.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.