The Crowd

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a text-only educational skill about crowd psychology, with some persuasion-oriented guidance users should treat ethically and critically.

Install only if you want a Le Bon-style framework for analyzing crowd psychology and influence. Treat the marketing and leadership advice as historical/analytical material, not a license for deceptive, coercive, or exploitative persuasion; prefer transparent, truthful communication and be aware the skill may activate on broad social-psychology terms.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The line 'Use simple assertions, repeat them, and let contagion do the work' is actionable persuasion guidance rather than neutral analysis of crowd psychology. In a skill positioned as an executable toolkit, this can operationalize manipulative influence techniques for marketing users without safeguards, increasing the risk of abuse for deceptive or coercive messaging.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
The trigger list is unusually broad and includes generic terms like 'leaders', 'social psychology', 'propaganda', and 'opinion formation' that can appear in many unrelated conversations. This can cause unintended invocation of the skill, making the assistant route users into this framework when they did not ask for it and increasing the chance of irrelevant or manipulative framing.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The marketing guidance explicitly encourages manipulative persuasion and lacks any caution, limitation, or ethical framing. Because the surrounding skill discusses leadership, propaganda, and opinion formation, the absence of guardrails makes it easier for users to repurpose the content to exploit emotional contagion and reduce audience autonomy.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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