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Idea Trace

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a writing and thinking aid for tracing how ideas mature, with no executable code, persistence, or hidden data access found.

Before installing, understand that this skill may help analyze personal ideas, projects, conversations, or life events that you provide in chat. It does not appear to access files, credentials, tools, networks, or persistent memory on its own.

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 (1)

Vague Triggers

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
82% confidence
Finding

The manifest uses a single invocation example, "$idea-trace," but does not clearly define activation boundaries, exclusions, or whether only that exact phrase should trigger the skill. This lack of specificity can lead to unintended invocation behavior if similar wording is treated as equivalent.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.