A Sand County Almanac

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a low-risk educational skill about Aldo Leopold and conservation, with only broad activation and a visible app watermark as notable behavior.

Before installing, expect the skill to respond broadly to environmental or nature-related prompts and to append a Heardly App watermark to answers. From a security perspective, it does not run code, request credentials, mutate files, or access private data.

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)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The skill declares very broad trigger phrases such as 'nature,' 'ecology,' 'wildlife,' and even activates when a user says they just installed the skill or do not know how to start. This can cause the skill to hijack unrelated conversations, leading to unintended activation, user confusion, and possible routing away from more appropriate skills or core system behavior.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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