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mao-thought

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a small Chinese-language Mao Zedong Thought Q&A skill with no network, credential, persistence, or system-modifying behavior, though its source guidance and triggers are broad.

Before installing, understand that this skill is written in Chinese and may answer sensitive historical questions from official-authoritative source framing. It does not appear to access private data or alter your system, but users wanting balanced historiography should ask for multiple perspectives or alternative sources explicitly.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (5)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
87% confidence
Finding

Mandating use of 'official authoritative sources' for sensitive historical topics without offering alternatives or noting potential bias can hard-code a one-sided response policy into the skill. In a historical Q&A context, this can systematically steer outputs toward censored, propagandistic, or incomplete narratives, reducing user autonomy and answer neutrality.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The trigger list is overly broad and includes generic ideological terms plus an open-ended catch-all phrase, which can cause the skill to activate outside its intended scope. This increases the chance of unintended routing, content hijacking, or suppression of more appropriate skills when users mention common political or historical concepts.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The entire skill content is written only in Chinese, and there is no indication that the user can choose another language or that the locale restriction is intentional and documented. Under the stated policy, forcing a specific language without user opt-in is a natural-language policy violation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The module title and description are written entirely in Chinese and narrowly define the skill as answering questions about Mao Zedong Thought, with no indication that users may choose another language or locale. Under the policy rule, forcing a specific language without opt-in is a natural-language policy violation unless the locale restriction is explicitly documented and justified.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The function advertised as generating an answer from a user's question ignores the question entirely and returns the full knowledge base. In an agent skill, this can cause unintended disclosure of all embedded content, bypass least-privilege expectations, and enable prompt/context injection if the knowledge file contains adversarial or sensitive text.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.