The Secret

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: Jun 14, 2026 at 2:34 AM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

The skill is a text-only self-help guide, but it gives broad, uncaveated health and life advice that could steer users away from appropriate medical care.

Install only if you want a spiritual/self-help interpretation of The Secret, not evidence-based medical, mental health, legal, or financial guidance. Do not rely on this skill for symptoms, diagnoses, treatment decisions, crisis support, debt, investing, or other high-stakes choices; use qualified professionals for those.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• 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
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (10)

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: The trigger list includes broad everyday phrases such as wanting to change life, feel good, or not knowing how to start, which can cause the skill to activate outside its intended domain. Because the skill provides strong worldview-driven guidance on money, relationships, and health, unintended invocation can expose users to unsolicited pseudo-therapeutic or quasi-medical/financial advice.

Vague Triggers

Low

• Confidence: 84% confidence
• Finding: The Quick Start includes the catch-all phrase 'Map this book to my life,' which is highly ambiguous and encourages broad personal application without scope boundaries. This increases the chance that the skill will be used as generalized life guidance in sensitive contexts, especially given its claims about health, money, and personal responsibility.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The skill presents manifestation practices as actionable guidance across money, relationships, and health, including claims that thoughts create reality and stories implying serious illness can be resolved by mindset. Without visible warnings or boundaries, users may defer appropriate medical, mental health, or financial help and instead rely on unsupported advice in high-stakes situations.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 87% confidence
• Finding: The manifest claims the skill can be used in 'all areas of life,' including health, relationships, career, and fulfillment, without clear boundaries or safety gating. For a self-help skill centered on metaphysical claims, this broad scope can cause the agent to over-apply non-evidence-based guidance in sensitive contexts such as health or mental well-being.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The document gives a direct behavioral instruction to stop consuming negative news as a universal rule, without caveats, user autonomy, or context. In a self-help skill, this can encourage information avoidance and reduced situational awareness, especially for users who may rely on news for safety, civic participation, or informed decision-making.

Missing User Warnings

High

• Confidence: 98% confidence
• Finding: This guidance explicitly tells readers to stop talking about symptoms and frames discussing surgery, pain, or condition details as causing further illness. In a health-adjacent skill, that can discourage symptom reporting, help-seeking, and clinician communication, increasing the risk of delayed diagnosis or untreated deterioration.

Missing User Warnings

High

• Confidence: 99% confidence
• Finding: The cancer case study presents remission as resulting from visualization, laughter, and refusal to focus on treatment, without any warning that cancer requires professional medical evaluation and evidence-based care. Readers may infer that mindset alone can replace treatment, which is especially dangerous for serious or rapidly progressing disease.

Missing User Warnings

High

• Confidence: 99% confidence
• Finding: This section praises ignoring doctors' prognosis and attributes recovery from catastrophic paralysis to thought alone, which can undermine trust in medical advice and rehabilitation. In practice, users could delay or reject urgent treatment, rehab, or monitoring based on a misleading message that mental focus is sufficient.

Missing User Warnings

High

• Confidence: 98% confidence
• Finding: Labeling symptom checks, tests, and attention to symptoms as an 'anti-pattern' directly discourages health monitoring and diagnostic evaluation. In context, this is more dangerous because the document repeatedly teaches that illness can be worsened by acknowledging it, reinforcing avoidance of appropriate medical care.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium

• Confidence: 94% confidence
• Finding: This content gives prescriptive, mental-health-adjacent guidance in an absolute, one-size-fits-all way, including claims that negative emotions are 'danger' signals that attract harm and that the user's 'only job' is to feel better. In a general-purpose skill without clear scope limits, disclaimers, or alternatives, this can mislead vulnerable users, reinforce self-blame, and discourage appropriate real-world support or evidence-based coping strategies.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.