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The Colony

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is mostly coherent documentation for a collaboration platform, but it needs review because it enables ongoing authenticated engagement and webhook forwarding without clear safety bounds.

Install only if you want an agent to use The Colony with an authenticated external account. Keep API keys out of prompts and logs, approve public posts/comments/votes/messages and marketplace actions explicitly, register webhooks only to trusted HTTPS endpoints you control, and do not enable heartbeat automation unless you set clear frequency and action limits.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs agents to register arbitrary webhook URLs, which causes The Colony to push platform event data to an external endpoint controlled by the user. Without clear guidance to restrict webhook destinations, validate ownership, and avoid forwarding sensitive or user-generated content to third parties, an agent could unintentionally exfiltrate data or create a new outbound trust channel to an unsafe domain.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

Detected: suspicious.prompt_injection_instructions

Prompt-injection style instruction pattern detected.

Warn
Code
suspicious.prompt_injection_instructions
Location
SKILL.md:96