Tp2
- Category
- MCP Tool Poisoning
- Confidence
- 85% confidence
- Finding
Mixing characters from multiple Unicode scripts in a single identifier is a common technique to create visually ambiguous tool names.
- Content
Security audit
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
This skill is a disclosed gold-price lookup wrapper around JisuAPI, with no hidden persistence, local data collection, destructive behavior, or unrelated authority.
Install only if you are comfortable configuring a JisuAPI key and having gold-price lookup parameters sent to JisuAPI. Treat returned prices as reference market data, not investment advice.
Mixing characters from multiple Unicode scripts in a single identifier is a common technique to create visually ambiguous tool names.
The skill declares it requires an environment variable and implicitly depends on outbound network access, but it does not explicitly scope or constrain those capabilities with a permissions or allowed-tools declaration. In an agent ecosystem, missing tool scoping weakens least-privilege enforcement and can let a skill execute with broader access than intended, increasing the blast radius if the script is modified, compromised, or invoked in an unexpected context.
The trigger rules include broad phrases such as trend and future-outlook wording that can match general gold-market discussion, not just concrete price lookup requests. Overbroad routing can cause the agent to invoke this networked skill unnecessarily, expose API-backed data retrieval in unrelated conversations, and increase the chance of misleading responses when the skill is used outside its narrow intended purpose.
The code is designed to transmit data to an external API endpoint, which creates a real trust-boundary crossing. In this skill's context, the transmission is functionally necessary, but it still exposes request metadata and authentication material to a third party and creates dependency on the security/privacy posture of api.jisuapi.com.
import requests
BASE_URL = "https://api.jisuapi.com/gold"
def _call_gold_api(path: str, appkey: str, params: dict = None):
The module docstring and several command descriptions use Chinese-language text, which imposes a language choice in user-visible natural language. The policy allows fixed locale behavior only when the constraint is justified or when the user is offered a language choice, neither of which is stated here.
The skill sends request parameters and the JISU API key to a third-party service without any explicit user-facing disclosure or consent flow. While outbound network access is expected for a price-lookup skill, transmitting user-supplied query parameters off-system can create privacy and transparency issues, especially in agent environments where users may not realize an external provider is involved.
No suspicious patterns detected.