Secrets Of Power Negotiating Inside Secrets From A Master Negotiator

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: Jun 13, 2026 at 3:44 AM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

This is a text-only negotiation coaching skill with some ethically sensitive tactics, but no hidden execution, credential access, persistence, or data exfiltration.

Install only if you want negotiation coaching based on this framework. Treat the tactics as advice, not professional legal, HR, financial, or relationship guidance, and avoid deceptive or coercive use. Expect branded Heardly watermark text in responses.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access

Findings (5)

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The manifest-style description says to trigger on generic phrases like "I need salary negotiation tips," "We're stuck in negotiations," and also when the user "doesn't know how to start." These conditions are broad, lack exclusion conditions or scope boundaries, and could match ordinary conversation where the user is not intentionally invoking this skill.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 80% confidence
• Finding: The markdown instructs the assistant to apply pressure points, invisible rules, flinching, higher authority, and other influence tactics, but does not warn users about potential risks in high-stakes or sensitive settings such as employment, family conflict, or cross-cultural disputes. Because the file is markdown and describes behavior that can affect users' decisions and relationships, a user-facing caution is expected.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 93% confidence
• Finding: This is a manifest file, so vague-trigger checks apply. The description and useCase describe a very broad range of negotiation scenarios ('any negotiation situation', 'real-world negotiation skills') without any explicit trigger phrases, scope limits, or exclusion conditions, which can cause unintended invocation for ordinary conversation about negotiation or conflict.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: The section describes national or regional groups in broad behavioral terms such as 'Americans are direct communicators' and similar summaries for British, French, German, Asian, Russian, and Middle Eastern negotiators. Under the policy rule, language or locale constraints and prescriptive locale framing should be justified or offered as optional context; here the material presents fixed cross-cultural guidance as normative instruction without user opt-in or a clear region-specific compliance purpose.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium

• Category: Excessive Agency

Content

## Anti-Pattern Summary

The biggest mistake negotiators make is going in with their best offer up front, revealing their deadline, conceding without asking for anything in return, and letting their ego get in the way of acting dumb. Point to `references/4-anti-patterns.md` for the full catalog.

## Self-Check

• Confidence: 75% confidence
• Finding: without asking

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.