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PsychoPy Experiment Design Skill

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a documentation-only PsychoPy experiment-design skill with no executable code, persistence, credential handling, or hidden system access.

Installers should understand this skill as a plain guidance document for psychology experiment design. Users can interact in any language even though the included examples are Chinese, and should still review any generated experiment code or data checks before using them in real studies.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (1)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The example prompts are all written in Chinese, and the file does not state that language choice is optional or that the skill supports multiple languages. This can be interpreted as a locale/language policy violation because it implicitly steers use toward a specific language without user opt-in.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.