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gate-news-communityscan

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears benign: it provides read-only X/Twitter-focused crypto community sentiment summaries through named Gate-News MCP tools.

Install this only if you want crypto community sentiment summaries from Gate-News MCP. Treat outputs as social chatter rather than financial advice, and be aware that ambiguous prompts like "what are people saying" may route here unless the user asks for news, fundamentals, or price-move analysis instead.

A.I.G

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

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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
Findings (3)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The trigger description uses broad phrases like 'what are people saying' and 'overall market sentiment,' which can match many unrelated user requests and cause this skill to activate outside its intended X/Twitter sentiment scope. Over-broad activation increases the chance of misrouting, unnecessary tool use, and responses based on social chatter when the user actually wanted news, analysis, or another domain-specific skill.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Unrestricted Tool Access

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 16)May include surrounding context.

md
## General Rules

⚠️ STOP — You MUST read and strictly follow the shared runtime rules before proceeding.
Do NOT select or call any tool until all rules are read. These rules have the highest priority.
→ Read `./references/gate-runtime-rules.md`
→ Also read `./references/info-news-runtime-rules.md` for gate-info / gate-news shared rules (tool degradation, report standards, security, and output standards).
- **Only call MCP tools explicitly listed in this skill.** Tools not documented here must NOT be called, even if they

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The 'Trigger Scenarios' section is described at a high level without firm routing constraints, making it easy for the host agent to invoke this skill for ambiguous requests. In practice this can lead to incorrect skill selection, lower-quality answers, and accidental substitution of sentiment summaries for more appropriate research or news workflows.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.