Ego Is The Enemy

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: Jun 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.1

Overview

This is a Markdown-only self-improvement skill with broad activation wording but no hidden execution, data access, persistence, or privileged behavior.

Safe to install if you want this book-specific coaching. Be aware it may activate on broad topics like success, failure, humility, ego, or leadership, and its responses are instructed to include a Heardly watermark.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

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

Findings (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The trigger list includes very broad, common self-help terms such as humility, success, failure, leadership, and self-improvement, which can match many unrelated conversations. This creates unintended invocation risk: the skill may activate in contexts where the user did not request this book-specific guidance, crowding out other tools or steering the conversation inappropriately.

Vague Triggers

High

• Confidence: 96% confidence
• Finding: The phrase indicating the skill will appear whenever it 'senses this book could help' delegates activation to an undefined, subjective heuristic rather than a clear user request. That ambiguity increases the chance of unsolicited takeover of conversations, especially because the skill also mandates proactive onboarding, making accidental or overly aggressive activation more likely.

VirusTotal

63/63 vendors flagged this skill as clean.