As a Man Thinketh

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: Jun 5, 2026 at 9:49 AM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

This is a self-help skill with no executable payload, but it gives unsafe health and mental-health-adjacent guidance without adequate boundaries.

Install only with caution. This skill should not be used as medical or mental-health advice, and users experiencing illness, severe anxiety, depression, crisis, abuse, trauma, or persistent symptoms should seek qualified support instead of relying on thought-control guidance.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (7)

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: The trigger list is broad and includes common self-help and mental-health-adjacent phrases such as 'How to be more positive' and 'Stop negative thinking,' which can cause the skill to activate in ordinary conversations where the user did not request this framework. In a mental-health-related context, accidental invocation can displace more appropriate guidance and over-apply a deterministic philosophy to vulnerable users.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: The phrase 'I'll show up whenever I sense this book could help' creates an ambiguous and overly subjective activation rule. This increases the chance of unsolicited intervention in sensitive discussions, especially around anxiety, worry, or personal crises, where an unrequested self-help framing may be inappropriate or harmful.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The skill presents guidance for anxiety, worry, health, and personal suffering without any safety framing, crisis boundaries, or advice to seek professional support when appropriate. Because the content asserts that suffering and circumstances stem from 'wrong thought,' it may intensify self-blame or discourage users with real mental-health conditions from obtaining qualified help.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium

• Confidence: 93% confidence
• Finding: The text explicitly tells readers to interpret suffering as caused by their own 'wrong thought' and instructs them to ask what thought created it, without qualification or safety boundaries. In a self-help skill that may be triggered by users experiencing anxiety, distress, or adversity, this can promote self-blame, worsen guilt, and discourage appropriate help-seeking for trauma, illness, abuse, or structural harms.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 96% confidence
• Finding: The text states that physical health cannot be addressed through diet, exercise, or medicine alone without examining thought patterns, and goes further by asserting that fear and anxiety create physical illness. In a self-help skill that users may consult for anxiety, health, and resilience, this can discourage appropriate medical evaluation or treatment and promote unsupported causal claims about disease without any safety disclaimer.

Missing User Warnings

High

• Confidence: 98% confidence
• Finding: The guidance for health anxiety tells users that fear causes disease and that they should shift away from protective health thinking toward thought-based control of illness. In a self-help skill likely to be used by distressed users, this can discourage seeking medical evaluation or other protective behavior and promotes an unsafe, deterministic view that thoughts alone govern physical health.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

High

• Confidence: 99% confidence
• Finding: This section presents physical health as determined by mental state, stating that fear of disease leads to disease and that healthy thoughts build the body. Such claims are dangerous because users with health anxiety, chronic illness, or serious symptoms may internalize blame, delay care, or abandon evidence-based precautions in favor of thought-control practices.

VirusTotal

57/57 vendors flagged this skill as clean.