T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
- Location
sources.md:3- Finding
Broad Access to Private User Context Without Explicit Consent or Data Minimization
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The skill is purpose-aligned for recommendations, but it directs broad personal-context searches and persistent preference updates without clear consent or controls.
Install only if you are comfortable with the agent consulting stored personal context and remembering inferred preferences. Prefer using it with memory disabled or after adding explicit confirmation before reading history or writing long-term preferences.
sources.md:3Broad Access to Private User Context Without Explicit Consent or Data Minimization
SKILL.md:81Persistent Preference Mutation Based on Unverified Behavioral Inference
The skill explicitly instructs the agent to gather user context, infer preferences, and 'store learnings in memory for future recommendations' without any privacy notice, consent boundary, retention limit, or guidance on handling sensitive data. In a recommendation skill, this creates a real privacy risk because the agent may persist behavioral profiles or personal constraints across sessions in ways the user does not expect.
The skill directs the agent to research candidates using external sources after gathering user context, but it does not constrain whether personal context may be included in those lookups or shared with third parties. In context, this is a genuine but lower-severity privacy issue because user preferences, constraints, or history could be unnecessarily exposed during external research or embedded into search queries.