Work Buddy

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

The skill appears to be a benign proactive work-companion skill, with the main caveat that it may check in more often than some users expect.

Install this only if you want a skill that may proactively check in during work sessions. Review its activation wording and disable or narrow it if you prefer explicit invocation only; the supplied signals do not show credential access, destructive actions, or data exfiltration.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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
85% confidence
Finding
The description is broad enough that the skill could activate during ordinary work-related conversations where the user did not explicitly ask for proactive companionship. That creates a risk of inappropriate persona injection or unsolicited proactive behavior, especially in systems that auto-select skills from natural-language descriptions.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
82% confidence
Finding
The 'high-value triggers' include subjective conditions like the user 'seems to be working alone for a stretch' or that a message would 'make the day feel smoother,' which are ambiguous and easy for an orchestrator or model to over-interpret. In context, this increases the chance of unsolicited outreach and overly aggressive invocation of a socially persistent skill.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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