Termux Persistent Gateway

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: May 29, 2026 at 8:43 PM UTC
• Version:
  1.1.0

Overview

This skill openly helps keep a user-chosen Termux gateway running in the background, and the persistence behavior is disclosed and aligned with that purpose.

Before installing, set GATEWAY_CMD and SCRIPT to trusted commands and paths, understand that wake-lock plus boot/cron restart can keep your phone active and drain battery, and review logs for sensitive gateway output. Remove the Termux:Boot script, cron entry, and wake lock if you no longer want it running persistently.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The README explicitly promotes persistent background execution, wake locks, boot auto-start, and automatic health monitoring, but it does not clearly warn users about battery drain, device performance impact, or the security/privacy implications of keeping an agent gateway always running. In an Android/Termux context, these behaviors increase persistence and reduce user visibility, which can normalize risky deployment patterns and make misuse or accidental overreach more likely.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.