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Auto Research Pipeline

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is not malicious, but one command can trigger broad automated experiments and multi-agent project changes without clear boundaries or approval checkpoints.

Install only if you want a single command to run an automated research and project-delivery pipeline. Use it in a version-controlled or backed-up workspace, constrain the files and commands AutoResearch may touch before running, and review results before allowing downstream agents to apply changes.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • 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
Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly states that a single invocation will automatically execute four stages, including repeated experimentation and then invoking another orchestration skill in the background, but it does not present a clear user-facing warning about this chained behavior. This is dangerous because users may trigger broad, multi-step actions with side effects, resource consumption, and delegated agent activity without informed consent or an opportunity to review each stage.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.