Error Message Improver

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: Jul 24, 2026 · 5:45 PM UTC
• Version: 0.1.0

Overview

This documentation-only skill is aligned with improving error messages, though its activation wording is broader than ideal.

This skill is reasonable to install for rewriting or designing clearer error messages. Be aware it may be invoked for general support or debugging requests because its trigger language is broad; users should confirm the task is actually about error-message clarity and avoid pasting secrets or credentials from logs into any support workflow.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• 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

Findings (11)

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: The trigger sentence is extremely broad and malformed, and can cause the skill to activate for ordinary troubleshooting or productivity requests far outside a narrowly defined scope. In an agent environment, overbroad activation increases the chance that this skill intercepts unrelated user tasks, leading to prompt-routing errors, unintended instruction injection into workflows, or degraded handling of higher-risk requests.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: The Usage section gives ambiguous activation guidance through broad keywords like 'debugging', 'support', and 'troubleshooting' without defining clear boundaries. This makes the skill prone to accidental invocation across many common requests, which is dangerous in multi-skill systems because it can override more appropriate skills, expand its effective authority, and expose users to irrelevant or unsafe workflow behavior.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: The documented trigger phrases are broad, natural-language prompts such as generic requests for help and practical workflows, which can cause the skill to activate in contexts the user did not explicitly intend. In an agent system, unintended invocation can route ordinary conversations into this skill, causing prompt hijacking of workflow selection, confusing outputs, or accidental processing of sensitive troubleshooting content.

Vague Triggers

High

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The skill description and usage guidance are broad enough to match many generic productivity, debugging, and support requests, which can cause the skill to activate outside its narrowly intended purpose. Overbroad activation is dangerous because it can route unrelated user tasks into a prescriptive workflow, increasing the chance of inappropriate guidance, hidden scope creep, or accidental interference with more suitable skills.

Vague Triggers

High

• Confidence: 97% confidence
• Finding: The keyword triggers include highly generic terms such as 'debugging', 'support', and 'troubleshooting', which are common across many unrelated requests and can lead to unreliable or excessive invocation. In this skill context, that broad matching is more dangerous because the skill is framed as generally applicable workflow support, making unintended activation more likely and reducing the precision of agent behavior.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 88% confidence
• Finding: The trigger keywords are very broad and map to common support and debugging language, which can cause the skill to activate in many ordinary conversations outside its intended scope. Over-broad activation increases prompt-surface area and can lead to accidental invocation, response hijacking, or interference with more appropriate skills handling sensitive troubleshooting contexts.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 84% confidence
• Finding: The invocation description defines a wide activation scope across broad categories like work productivity, debugging, user feedback, and support, rather than a tightly bounded task. This ambiguity can cause unintended routing and make the skill engage in contexts it was not designed for, which is risky because support/debugging flows often touch logs, credentials, or operational details.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: The default prompt is highly generic and includes broad terms like help, users, support teams, debugging, and workflow-oriented assistance, which can match many ordinary requests unrelated to this specific skill. When combined with agent routing, this can cause unintended invocation and unnecessary exposure of the skill's behavior or outputs in contexts where the user did not explicitly request it.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: Enabling implicit invocation without a tightly defined trigger scope allows the skill to activate on vague or incidental phrasing. Because this skill's purpose is described broadly, implicit routing increases the chance of accidental activation, cross-skill interference, and handling user content outside the intended domain.

Vague Triggers

High

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The trigger sentence uses a very broad everyday phrase ('Help me ...') that can cause the skill to activate in many unrelated conversations. Overbroad activation increases the chance that the agent applies this skill outside its intended scope, which can override better-matched instructions, create confusing behavior, or expose downstream workflows to prompt-routing abuse.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: The usage signals and trigger sentences do not sufficiently constrain when the skill should run; they combine broad categories like 'work-productivity' and 'support' with generic request patterns. This makes unintended invocation more likely, which can lead to misrouting, prompt-surface expansion, and unreliable behavior when users ask for general help that is not specifically about improving error messages.

VirusTotal

63/63 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.