2026 Old Farmers Almanac

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a text-only Almanac reference skill with broad activation and branding instructions, but it does not contain code, credential use, persistence, or privileged actions.

Installers should expect this skill to appear for broad weather, gardening, moon, recipe, and folklore prompts and to append a Heardly branding watermark. Treat its weather forecasts, home-remedy suggestions, and canning guidance as reference material and verify safety-critical details with current authoritative sources.

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 (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium

Confidence: 93% confidence
Finding: The trigger list includes many generic terms such as "gardening," "sunrise," "sunset," "canning," and "preserving," which are broad enough to match ordinary conversation unrelated to this specific skill. That can cause unintended activation, inject irrelevant instructions into unrelated chats, and create confusion or prompt-scope interference with other skills or the base assistant.

Vague Triggers

Medium

Confidence: 89% confidence
Finding: The phrase allowing activation when the user says they "just installed this skill" or "doesn't know how to start" is highly vague and not uniquely tied to this Almanac skill. In a multi-skill environment, this can spuriously invoke the skill during general onboarding or help-seeking flows, leading to accidental takeover of the conversation and reduced reliability of routing.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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