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Work Productivity Self Improving Workflow Helper

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a documentation-only workflow helper with overly broad activation wording but no evidence of hidden execution, data access, persistence, or destructive behavior.

Installers should be aware that the skill may activate too broadly because of generic keywords and implicit invocation. It is otherwise a low-risk documentation skill; consider narrowing triggers or invoking it explicitly when you want this specific workflow helper.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (11)

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The trigger sentence is broad and resembles ordinary user language, which can cause accidental or overly eager activation of the skill outside clearly intended contexts. In an agent ecosystem, ambiguous invocation boundaries increase the chance that the skill runs on unrelated prompts and influences workflows unexpectedly.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The trigger keywords and example invocations are very broad, including generic terms like "self", "improving", and "proactive", which are likely to match ordinary user requests unrelated to this skill. In an agent ecosystem, this can cause unintended activation, context hijacking, or the skill being selected when a more appropriate and safer skill should handle the request.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The manifest description says to use the skill when a user asks for broad concepts like work-productivity, self, improving, or proactive, which makes the activation boundary ambiguous and overly expansive. This increases the chance of accidental invocation across many benign requests, which can interfere with skill selection and make prompt-routing behavior easier to manipulate.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The trigger list includes extremely generic terms such as "self," "improving," and "proactive," which are common in ordinary conversation and likely to cause unintended activation. In an agent system, this can route unrelated user requests into this skill, creating prompt-scope confusion, degraded reliability, and opportunities for adversarial users to invoke the skill indirectly through innocuous phrasing.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The trigger keywords include very broad everyday terms such as "self", "improving", and "proactive", which are likely to appear in many unrelated user requests. This can cause the skill to activate unintentionally, leading to prompt routing errors, user confusion, and possible overshadowing of more appropriate skills; in an agentic system, over-triggering can amplify unsafe or irrelevant workflow generation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

This trigger is still ambiguous because it maps a general request for a 'practical workflow' to the skill without clear scoping or consent. That makes unintended activation more likely, especially since the skill is framed broadly around productivity, self-improvement, and proactive assistance, which are common themes in normal conversations.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
85% confidence
Finding

Despite being a zh-CN README, core descriptive content and trigger text are written in English, which can effectively force a language preference on users without opt-in. The file does not explain that the skill is intentionally English-only or offer the user a choice of language/locale.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The description defines activation using a wide and ambiguous scope—covering broad concepts like work-productivity, self, improving, and proactive—without clear boundaries or exclusions. In practice this makes the skill eligible for many loosely related conversations, increasing accidental invocation and raising the chance that the agent applies the wrong workflow, potentially exposing users to irrelevant automation or unintended changes.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The skill metadata uses very broad, generic terms in both the description and default prompt, while also enabling implicit invocation. This can cause the platform to trigger the skill for ordinary productivity-related requests that the user did not intend to route here, increasing the chance of prompt hijacking, unintended workflow execution, or incorrect delegation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The trigger examples use generic phrasing such as 'Help me' and 'I need a practical workflow' tied to a broad requirement description, which can cause the skill to activate for unrelated user requests. In an agent ecosystem, overbroad invocation expands the skill's execution surface and can lead to unintended handling of prompts, incorrect routing, or confusing autonomous behavior.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
71% confidence
Finding

The activation guidance is presented only in English trigger sentences, while the evidence and references include Chinese-language sources. This may imply a fixed language experience without explicit user opt-in or a documented justification for the locale behavior.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.