Premortem

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is an instruction-only reasoning checklist that is broad and always-on, but it does not request tools, credentials, file access, network access, or hidden side effects.

Install this only if you want an always-available internal review step before significant agent work. Keep normal safeguards for destructive commands, production changes, deployments, and shared systems; this skill should not replace tests, backups, code review, or explicit confirmation.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • 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
Findings (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The activation criteria are so broad that the skill is likely to run on a large fraction of normal interactions, effectively imposing an always-on behavioral modifier. In agent settings, broad implicit activation can distort responsiveness, add hidden latency, and interfere with higher-priority safety or task-specific policies by encouraging unnecessary pre-execution deliberation on routine tasks.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly requires hidden internal reasoning ('Premortems are internal reasoning') and instructs the agent not to disclose that process except in limited cases. In a security-sensitive agent framework, this is dangerous because it normalizes opaque chain-of-thought-style behavior, reduces auditability, and can conceal when the skill is influencing decisions in ways the user or operator cannot inspect.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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