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Security audit

Competitor Research

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a local competitor-research assistant that saves research notes and preferences, with no executable code or evidence of credential use, exfiltration, or hidden behavior.

Install this only if you are comfortable with competitor research notes, preferences, and business context being saved locally under ~/competitor-research/. Avoid putting confidential credentials or private third-party system access into the workflow; the skill is intended for public competitive research and local note keeping.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • 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)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The setup explicitly encourages the agent to proactively activate on broad triggers like 'competitors' or 'market research' within the first few exchanges. That creates an ambiguous invocation boundary where the skill may engage or steer conversations without a clear, current user request, increasing the risk of overreach and unintended collection or use of user context.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs the agent to write the user's activation preference into persistent memory without any notice, consent flow, or retention limits. This is dangerous because it silently stores behavioral preferences across sessions, which can surprise users, expand profiling, and cause future actions based on data they did not realize would persist.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

L141 says 'No config keys visible — use natural language, not "depth: quick"', but the file explicitly prescribes visible key-style fields such as 'status:', 'version:', 'last:', 'integration:', 'depth:', 'focus:', and 'style:' in the memory structure at L8-L23. This is an active contradiction between documented intent and the artifact the skill tells the developer to create.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.