design-panel

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

The skill’s design-review workflow is coherent, but it automatically creates persistent gstack telemetry files and invokes external helper commands outside the reviewed skill.

Install only if you are comfortable with automatic local gstack analytics and helper execution. Run it on apps and repositories you intend to inspect, avoid sensitive authenticated apps unless you accept screenshots and findings being saved locally, and review generated reports before committing or sharing them.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
The skill includes telemetry, analytics, and prior-learnings collection that are not necessary to perform a design review and are not clearly disclosed in the user-facing description. This expands data collection beyond least-privilege and can expose repository, branch, session, and workflow metadata to local logs or helper utilities without explicit user awareness.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The skill directs execution of external gstack helper binaries and shell commands that are peripheral to the core review task, increasing the trusted computing base and attack surface. If those local helpers are compromised, replaced, or behave unexpectedly, the skill can trigger unintended data access or persistence outside the immediate review workflow.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The skill writes telemetry and analytics data to persistent files under the user's home directory, including branch and session metadata, without clear disclosure in the skill description. Silent persistence of execution metadata is a privacy and transparency problem and may violate user expectations or local policy.

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