T02 · Agent Memory Poisoning
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setup.md:9- Finding
Persistent Activation Preference Written Outside the Declared Storage Boundary
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This Denmark travel skill is mostly coherent, but it asks the agent to save a future activation preference in unspecified main memory despite saying data stays under ~/denmark.
Install only if you are comfortable with local trip memory and ask the agent not to save anything to main memory. Before using it, confirm where Denmark trip details and activation preferences are stored, how to inspect or delete them, and avoid saving sensitive family, mobility, passport, or booking details unless needed.
setup.md:9Persistent Activation Preference Written Outside the Declared Storage Boundary
The activation guidance says to use the file when users ask 'what they can bring, how cash rules work, or whether border hops feel frictionless,' which describes broad conversational topics rather than specific trigger phrases or constraints. This can overlap with ordinary travel discussion and does not clearly define when the skill should or should not activate.
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
- Assuming "no border" means no rules.
- Carrying large cash without understanding declaration duties.
- Packing restricted foods for the onward trip without checking origin-country rules.
- Confusing EU free movement for people with fully unrestricted movement of goods.
## Official Direction
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
- Assuming "no border" means no rules.
- Carrying large cash without understanding declaration duties.
- Packing restricted foods for the onward trip without checking origin-country rules.
- Confusing EU free movement for people with fully unrestricted movement of goods.
## Official Direction
The file presents 112, 114, DMI warnings, and local alerting guidance as universal instructions, but these are Denmark-specific conventions. Because the document does not explicitly state that the guidance applies only in Denmark, it risks violating language/locale policy by imposing a locale-specific context without clear opt-in or justification in the file itself.
The skill instructs creation of a local directory and persistent memory file, then directs saving user travel preferences and related durable facts, but provides no user-facing notice, consent, or retention controls. This creates a privacy and transparency issue because personal trip details, mobility needs, family/child information, and booking status may be stored without the user's informed awareness.
No suspicious patterns detected.