The Complete Guide To Fasting

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Overview

This health skill is transparent about being a fasting guide, but it gives broad, prescriptive fasting and diabetes-related guidance without enough safety scoping.

Review carefully before installing. This skill may be useful as a book-summary or educational fasting reference, but users should not treat it as personalized medical advice. Avoid using it for diabetes, medication changes, pregnancy or breastfeeding, eating-disorder history, low body weight, chronic illness, kidney disease, or extended fasts unless a qualified clinician is supervising.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • 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 (5)

Vague Triggers

High
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The trigger list is extremely broad and includes generic terms like "fasting," "weight loss," "diabetes," "insulin," and even cases where the user merely says they just installed the skill. That can cause the skill to activate in unrelated or sensitive health conversations and inject prescriptive fasting guidance without clear user intent, which is especially risky given the medical claims elsewhere in the skill.

Missing User Warnings

High
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding
The skill gives concrete guidance on extended fasting, autophagy timing, and reversing Type 2 diabetes while presenting safety claims such as "fasting is safe for most people" and protocol recommendations up to 72 hours. In a health context, this can lead users with contraindications, medications, diabetes, eating disorders, pregnancy, or other conditions to undertake medically risky fasting based on incomplete warnings and overconfident claims.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding
This file gives affirmative therapeutic fasting guidance, including extended fasts, autophagy claims, diabetes-related framing, and statements that normalize skipping meals, but it contains no safety disclaimer, contraindications, or instruction to seek medical supervision. In the context of a health skill that explicitly targets weight loss and Type 2 diabetes, users may follow this advice despite pregnancy, eating disorders, low BMI, medication use (especially insulin/sulfonylureas), kidney disease, or other conditions where fasting can cause hypoglycemia, dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, or delayed care.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
This content gives actionable instructions for extended fasting and refeeding, including electrolyte dosing and 48+ hour fasting guidance, without any safety screening, contraindications, or advice to seek medical supervision. In a health skill that explicitly targets users interested in diabetes, weight loss, and therapeutic fasting, omission of warnings can lead users with conditions such as diabetes, eating disorders, pregnancy, kidney disease, or medication use to follow unsafe advice and suffer hypoglycemia, electrolyte imbalance, dehydration, or refeeding complications.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
The content gives actionable fasting protocols, weight-loss guidance, diabetes reversal claims, and exercise advice with only a limited warning for medicated diabetics, but no broader safety framing for other at-risk users. In a health skill, users may treat these examples as prescriptive medical guidance; prolonged fasting or exercise while fasting can be harmful for people with eating disorders, pregnancy, low BMI, chronic disease, or those on medications affecting blood pressure or glucose.

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