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Barbershop Marketing Kit

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a content-only Nevada barbershop marketing skill; the main risks are regulatory accuracy gaps in generated marketing copy, not hidden execution or data access.

Before installing, treat this as a marketing drafting aid, not legal advice. Verify Nevada barber, advertising, SMS, email, review, and gift-card compliance with current rules before publishing or sending generated content, especially for SMS campaigns and public review responses.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (5)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly generates SMS campaigns but does not prominently warn that text marketing requires prior express consent, recordkeeping, and jurisdiction-specific compliance under laws such as the TCPA and carrier rules. Although the checklist includes an opt-out phrase, that is not sufficient by itself; users could use the generated campaigns for unsolicited bulk messaging, creating privacy, regulatory, and liability risk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
83% confidence
Finding

This markdown file contains sample outbound email, ads, SMS, web copy, and review responses entirely in English, with no indication that language is configurable or selected by the user. Because the file prescribes customer-facing output across multiple channels, this can violate a language/locale policy requiring user choice or opt-in before forcing a specific language.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The prompt contains contradictory gift-card compliance guidance: one section correctly permits stating that Nevada gift cards have no expiration, while the checklist later says to avoid 'expiration language' altogether. This inconsistency can cause an agent to omit required legal clarifications or to generate noncompliant copy inconsistently, increasing the risk of misleading advertising and regulatory violations.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The instruction explicitly says to generate the package for 'a Nevada barbershop,' which imposes a specific jurisdiction and locale on outputs. The file does not clearly frame itself as a Nevada-only skill or offer any user choice to adapt for other regions, which can violate language/locale policy constraints when a skill forces a locale without opt-in.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The file's instructions are consistently for a barbershop, and later schema also uses "BarberShop". However, the Page 1 schema block declares the type as ["HairSalon", "LocalBusiness"], which contradicts the documented intent of producing barbershop-specific schema markup.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.