Error Message Improver

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: Jul 24, 2026 · 5:53 PM UTC
• Version: 0.1.0

Overview

This is a documentation-only skill for improving error messages, with no code execution or data access, but its activation wording is broader than ideal.

Installers should know this skill may activate for general debugging or support requests because of broad trigger terms. If maintaining it, narrow the triggers to explicit error-message rewrite or troubleshooting-message improvement requests; ordinary users should prefer explicit invocation when they want this 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 (9)

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 90% confidence
• Finding: The trigger sentence begins with a very common help-seeking phrase and maps broad user language directly to skill activation. This increases the chance of accidental invocation in unrelated conversations, causing the agent to apply this skill when the user did not explicitly intend it and potentially interfering with safer or more appropriate workflows.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 88% confidence
• Finding: This trigger uses a generic request pattern ('I need a practical workflow for...') without strong constraints, which can match many unrelated productivity or debugging requests. Overbroad activation can lead to prompt-routing confusion, unintended tool/skill execution, and degraded trust because the system may respond with the wrong workflow.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: The trigger phrases are broad enough to match many ordinary support, debugging, and productivity requests, which can cause the skill to activate outside its intended scope. Overbroad activation increases the chance of prompt/skill hijacking at the orchestration layer, unintended data exposure to the skill context, or workflow interference when a more appropriate skill should have handled the request.

Vague Triggers

High

• Confidence: 93% confidence
• Finding: The skill description uses very broad activation language such as 'work-productivity,' 'debugging,' 'support,' and 'implementation support,' which overlaps with many ordinary user requests. In systems that select skills from natural-language descriptions, this can cause over-invocation, routing the model into this skill when the user did not specifically intend it, increasing prompt-surface area and the chance of inappropriate context capture or interference with safer, more specific skills.

Vague Triggers

High

• Confidence: 96% confidence
• Finding: The trigger keywords are extremely generic and include common terms like 'debugging,' 'support,' and 'troubleshooting' that appear in many unrelated conversations. This makes accidental or excessive invocation likely, which is dangerous in agentic systems because it can hijack routing decisions, apply the wrong workflow, and broaden access to user context or downstream actions beyond the intended scope.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 90% confidence
• Finding: The example trigger sentences use broad everyday phrasing like 'Help me' and 'I need a practical workflow,' which provides weak scope boundaries and teaches the invocation system that ordinary requests may match this skill. That increases the risk of misrouting and unintended skill activation, especially because the rest of the skill also uses expansive, overlapping language.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The trigger keywords are very broad and overlap with common help-seeking language such as debugging, support, and user feedback. This can cause the skill to activate in many unrelated conversations, leading to inappropriate routing, unexpected instruction injection into benign contexts, and reduced reliability of downstream agent behavior.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 88% confidence
• Finding: The skill enables implicit invocation while using a very broad description and default prompt centered on generic error-message and support tasks. This can cause the agent to trigger in many ordinary help contexts, expanding the skill's reach beyond clear user intent and increasing the chance of unintended routing, confusing outputs, or misuse of the skill as a hidden intermediary.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: The trigger sentence is so generic that it can match ordinary user requests and invoke the skill outside its intended scope. That increases the chance of accidental routing, causing the agent to apply this workflow when the user did not explicitly request it, which can lead to confused behavior, prompt collisions, or unintended task handling.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.