Error Message Improver

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: Jul 29, 2026 · 5:55 AM UTC
• Version: 0.20260729.110214

Overview

This is a documentation-only skill for improving error messages, with broad activation wording but no code, data access, persistence, or privileged behavior.

Installers should be aware that this skill may be invoked too broadly for general debugging or support phrasing. It is best used when the user is explicitly asking to rewrite, explain, or design an error message with cause and next steps.

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: 90% confidence
• Finding: The trigger sentence is overly generic and close to normal user phrasing, which increases the chance the skill will activate unintentionally during ordinary support or debugging conversations. Unintended invocation can route user requests into this skill when it is not the best fit, causing prompt hijacking of task flow, misleading outputs, or accidental application in contexts with different safety expectations.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 88% confidence
• Finding: The activation guidance provides broad keywords and examples without meaningful boundaries, so the orchestrator or user may invoke the skill for many loosely related requests. This weak scoping expands the attack surface for misrouting and prompt-confusion issues, especially in multi-skill systems where broad matching can override more appropriate or safer skills.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 85% confidence
• Finding: The trigger phrases are broad and generic enough that the skill could activate for many ordinary requests about productivity, debugging, support, or feedback rather than only for the narrowly intended error-message use case. Over-broad activation can cause unintended routing, prompt/context injection into unrelated workflows, or inappropriate influence over user tasks, which increases misuse and reduces operator control.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The skill description uses very broad categories like work-productivity, debugging, user feedback, support, and practical workflow support, which can cause the skill to be invoked for many routine requests outside its stated narrow purpose of improving error messages. Overbroad routing increases the chance of incorrect skill activation, confusing outputs, and unintended handling of unrelated tasks.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The trigger keywords include generic terms such as debugging, support, and troubleshooting that are common across many unrelated skills and normal user requests. This makes accidental or excessive invocation more likely, which can degrade system behavior by misrouting tasks and overshadowing more appropriate skills.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 93% confidence
• Finding: The example trigger phrases are highly generic and formulaic, so they can match ordinary assistance requests without clearly signaling that the user needs error-message improvement. Such loose examples widen the activation surface and make the skill easier to invoke in contexts where it is not the best fit.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: The trigger keywords are very broad and overlap with common user language such as debugging, support, and user feedback. This can cause the skill to activate in unrelated conversations, leading to incorrect routing, unnecessary prompt expansion, or the model following an irrelevant workflow instead of the user's actual intent.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 94% confidence
• Finding: The skill description defines applicability too broadly, covering multiple generic domains without clear boundaries for when the skill should or should not be invoked. In practice, this increases accidental invocation risk and can cause the system to apply this skill in contexts where it is not appropriate, reducing reliability and potentially interfering with other more relevant skills.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: The skill enables implicit invocation but does not define a narrowly scoped trigger or clear invocation constraints. This can cause the agent to call the skill in broader contexts than intended, potentially exposing user inputs to the skill unexpectedly or allowing the skill to influence conversations outside its intended domain.

Vague Triggers

High

• Confidence: 93% confidence
• Finding: The trigger sentence is so generic that ordinary user requests about help, workflows, or error messages could activate this skill unintentionally. Over-broad activation increases the chance of prompt routing errors, causing the agent to invoke this skill in contexts where it is not the best fit and potentially exposing unrelated user content to unnecessary processing.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 90% confidence
• Finding: The activation guidance is insufficiently constrained and overlaps with common support and productivity language, making the skill eligible for many routine conversations. This can lead to unintended invocation, poor skill routing, and over-collection or transformation of user inputs in situations that do not actually require this specialized behavior.

VirusTotal

63/63 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.