Mans Search For Meaning

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: Jun 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

This text-only self-help skill is not malware, but it needs review because it can give mental-health-adjacent guidance without crisis boundaries and includes discouraging claims about medication or therapy.

Review carefully before installing. The skill is text-only and does not show malware-like behavior, but users should treat it as philosophical reflection, not medical or mental-health advice, and should seek licensed or emergency support for self-harm thoughts, severe distress, depression, trauma, or inability to function.

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 (5)

Vague Triggers

High

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The trigger conditions are extremely broad and include common terms like "meaning," "suffering," "purpose," and even first-install/unsure-how-to-start scenarios, making accidental activation likely in unrelated conversations. Because this skill delivers mental-health-adjacent framing, over-triggering can redirect normal dialogue into sensitive philosophical guidance without clear user intent, which is especially risky for distressed users.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The skill addresses suffering, existential crisis, hopelessness, and coping, but provides no warning, boundary, or escalation guidance for users in crisis or severe psychological distress. In practice, users may interpret the skill as therapeutic support and receive spiritually framed self-help content when they may need crisis resources or professional care instead.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The text makes categorical mental-health treatment claims such as 'The cure is not medication — it is the discovery of meaning' and states existential frustration is not mental illness, without any warning, scope limitation, or advice to seek licensed care. In a user-facing self-help skill, this can discourage appropriate evaluation or treatment for depression, suicidality, trauma, or other conditions that may present as emptiness, hopelessness, or meaninglessness.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: Statements like 'When we ignore this dimension, we become sick in a way that no medication can cure' and 'The cure for meaninglessness is not a pill. It is a purpose' present definitive treatment-like claims that can undermine trust in evidence-based care. Given the skill is designed to trigger for users in suffering or existential crisis, such messaging is more dangerous because vulnerable users may interpret it as instruction to reject medical or psychiatric treatment.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The file gives psychologically influential advice about grief, suffering, hopelessness, and coping without any limitation notice, crisis guidance, or encouragement to seek professional help when needed. In a skill explicitly triggered by phrases such as existential crisis, suffering, and meaninglessness, users may be in acute distress and could interpret the content as sufficient mental-health support, delaying appropriate care or worsening self-blame if the advice does not help.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.