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Academic Researcher

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a simple academic research and writing helper with no executable behavior; the only notable caveat is somewhat broad activation wording.

Reasonable to install for academic paper summaries, literature reviews, citation formatting, and research writing. Expect it may activate on broad academic writing or research requests; provide only the paper text or private research material you actually want the assistant to process.

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
  • 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)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill advertises activation on very broad phrases like academic research, writing, papers, and scientific literature, which are common across many benign conversations. Overbroad triggers can cause the skill to activate outside its intended scope, increasing the chance it overrides a more appropriate skill, processes untrusted content unnecessarily, or expands the attack surface for prompt-injection and unsafe workflow chaining.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.