Inversion Protocol

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: Sep 11, 2026 · 2:45 AM UTC
• Version: 1.0.0

Overview

This is a markdown-only reasoning skill that asks the agent to pause and think through failure modes before consequential actions.

Installers should understand that this skill may cause the agent to apply an extra reasoning checklist on many non-trivial tasks, which can add verbosity or small delays, but the reviewed artifact does not add tools, persistence, credentials, network access, or hidden execution behavior.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

• Skill Instruction Hijacking: Alters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
• Agent Memory Poisoning: Writes attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
• Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution: Fetches external code whose behavior can change after review
• Embedded Malicious Code: Ships malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
• Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation: Obtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Tool Misuse: Tool Parameter Abuse, Chaining Abuse, Unsafe Defaults
• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration

Findings (8)

Tool Parameter Abuse

High

• Category: Tool Misuse

Content

## Scenario 3: The Confident Wrong Answer

**Task**: User asks "Is it safe to run `chmod 777` on my web server's upload
directory?"

### Without Inversion Protocol

• Confidence: 80% confidence
• Finding: Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The description says to use the skill when the agent is about to execute code, write files, run commands, answer complex questions, debug issues, make architectural decisions, or perform any action where being wrong has consequences. This trigger scope is extremely expansive and overlaps with common, everyday agent behavior, making it unclear when the skill should not activate beyond a few examples later in the file.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: The phrase "before any action where being wrong matters" and examples like "performing multi-step workflows" or situations where "the user has corrected you before" are subjective and open to broad interpretation. Although a few trivial exclusions are listed, the file still lacks sufficiently specific constraints to distinguish routine from non-routine cases consistently.

Sudo/Root Execution

Medium

• Category: Privilege Escalation

Content

## Scenario 3: The Confident Wrong Answer

**Task**: User asks "Is it safe to run `chmod 777` on my web server's upload
directory?"

### Without Inversion Protocol

• Confidence: 80% confidence
• Finding: Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.

Sudo/Root Execution

Medium

• Category: Privilege Escalation

Content

## Scenario 3: The Confident Wrong Answer

**Task**: User asks "Is it safe to run `chmod 777` on my web server's upload
directory?"

### Without Inversion Protocol

• Confidence: 80% confidence
• Finding: Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.

Unsafe Defaults

Medium

• Category: Tool Misuse

Content

### Without Inversion Protocol

Agent explains what chmod 777 does and warns it's "generally not recommended"
but provides the command. User runs it. Attacker exploits the world-writable
directory within hours.

### With Inversion Protocol

• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.

Unsafe Defaults

Medium

• Category: Tool Misuse

Content

### Without Inversion Protocol

Agent explains what chmod 777 does and warns it's "generally not recommended"
but provides the command. User runs it. Attacker exploits the world-writable
directory within hours.

### With Inversion Protocol

• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.

Sudo/Root Execution

Medium

• Category: Privilege Escalation

Content

→ Adjust: Explain the risk clearly, provide the SAFE permission set instead
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**Result**: Agent provides `chmod 750` with www-data group ownership —
functionally equivalent for the user's need, without the security hole.

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• Confidence: 80% confidence
• Finding: Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.