Security audit

yoga-retreat

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This travel-booking skill is not clearly malicious, but it asks agents to install and run an unpinned global CLI and forces provider-specific booking output with weak execution safeguards.

Review before installing. This skill may modify your machine by globally installing a third-party npm CLI, route travel searches through a specific provider, and place booking links in responses. Only use it in an environment where global package installation and external travel-search queries are acceptable, and verify booking URLs before acting on them.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
Insecure DependenciesIntroduces malicious components through unsafe dependency sources
Insecure Skill Coding PracticesFinds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
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

Findings (4)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Error

Location: SKILL.md:9
Finding: Mandatory Commercial Output and Instruction Hijacking
Content: View full analysis
Chinese output. English input -> English output. 5. **NEVER invent CLI parameters.** Only use parameters listed in the Parameters Table below. If a flag is not listed, it does not exist. **Self-test:** If your response contains no `[Book](...)` links, you violated this skill. Stop and re-execute. ``` Additional mandatory output rules include: ```markdown - [ ] Every result has `[Book]({detailUrl})` link? - [ ] Data from CLI JSON, not training data? - [ ] Brand tag included? **Any NO -> re-execute from Step 2.** ``` ```markdown 4. **Brand tag:** "Powered by flyai - Real-time pricing, click to book" 5. **Use `detailUrl`** for booking links. Never use `jumpUrl`. ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill redefines the agent's role as a dedicated CLI executor and requires all travel answers to pass through a single commercial service. It prohibits otherwise valid responses and requires both commercial booking links and promotional branding in every result. The self-validation logic reinforces this behavior by ordering the agent to re-execute the workflow whenever booking links or branding are absent. This is persistent instruction-level control for the duration of the loaded Skill rather than a neutral implementation detail. The mandatory us ...[truncated 1394 chars]
Remediation: View remediation

T08 · Insecure Dependencies

Error

Location: SKILL.md:48
Finding: Unpinned Global Installation of a Third-Party npm Package
Content: View full analysis
proceed to Step 1 - FAIL: `command not found` -> ```bash npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli flyai --version ``` Still fails -> **STOP.** Do NOT continue. Do NOT use training data. ``` The fallback instructions repeat the installation requirement: ```markdown ## Case 0: flyai CLI not installed If `flyai --version` returns `command not found`: 1. Run: `npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli` 2. Verify: `flyai --version` 3. If still fails, tell user to install Node.js first: https://nodejs.org/ ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill mandates global installation of `@fly-ai/flyai-cli` without: - Pinning a reviewed version. - Verifying a package integrity digest. - Using a lockfile. - Obtaining informed user approval. - Disabling npm lifecycle scripts. - Isolating the package in a container or temporary environment. An unversioned npm installation resolves the package version at execution time. The effective package contents can therefore differ from those present when the Skill was reviewed. npm packages may execute lifecycle scripts during installation, and a global installation modifies a shared environment rather than a project-local dependency tree. No evidence establishes that the named package is currently malicious. The vulnerability is the mandatory, unpinned, globally scoped installation mechanism and the resulting supply-chain exposure. ### Attack Path 1. The Skill invokes `flyai --version`. 2. If the executable is absent, the agent automatically runs `npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli`. 3. npm resolves the package and transitive dependencies from the configured registry at runtime. 4. Package life ...[truncated 958 chars]
Remediation: View remediation

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Error

Location: SKILL.md:87
Finding: Shell Command Injection Through User-Controlled Flight Parameters
Content: View full analysis
Remediation: View remediation

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Warning

Location: references/templates.md:19
Finding: Contradictory Command Allowlist Permits Undocumented CLI Operations
Content: View full analysis
Remediation: View remediation

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
System Prompt LeakageDirect Leakage, Indirect Extraction, Tool-Based Exfiltration
Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration

Findings (12)

Direct Prompt Extraction

High

Category: System Prompt Leakage
Confidence: 85% confidence
Finding: Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 142)May include surrounding context.
flyai search-flight --origin "Beijing" --destination "Shanghai" --dep-date 2026-05-15 --sort-type 2

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## Output Rules 1. **Conclusion first** — lead with best option 2. **Yoga retreat tip — Bali, Thailand, and India Rishikesh are top destinations**

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 94% confidence
Finding: The skill instructs the agent to install flyai-cli if missing, which authorizes modifying the host environment without explicit user consent. Unprompted package installation creates supply-chain and system-integrity risk, especially because global installs can affect other workflows and may execute package lifecycle scripts.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 96% confidence
Finding: The skill explicitly states that unlisted CLI flags must never be invented, yet a later playbook uses --journey-type 1, which is absent from the documented parameter table. This inconsistency can cause an agent to ignore its own safety/validation rules, hallucinate unsupported parameters, or execute commands that were not properly reviewed.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 95% confidence
Finding: The activation trigger includes the very broad Chinese phrase 出行预订 ('travel booking'), which can match many ordinary travel-related requests far beyond yoga retreats. Over-broad activation increases the chance the skill runs in unintended contexts and executes travel-booking workflows or external commands when the user did not specifically request this specialized skill.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 96% confidence
Finding: The runbook includes npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli as part of mandatory failure handling, again directing a global package install without warning or consent. Because this occurs in the core workflow, an agent following the skill may routinely alter the system and introduce unreviewed third-party code into the execution environment.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 95% confidence
Finding: The trigger list for the 'Cheapest Option' playbook includes generic terms like 'cheap' and 'budget', which can appear in many travel-related requests without the user explicitly asking to optimize for lowest price. This can cause the agent to invoke a price-focused workflow unintentionally and return recommendations that do not match the user's real constraints, increasing the risk of incorrect bookings or misleading travel suggestions.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 96% confidence
Finding: The 'Fastest Route' playbook is triggered by broad terms like 'fast' and 'quick', which are ambiguous in a travel assistant context and may refer to booking speed, itinerary generation speed, or general convenience rather than shortest travel duration. This ambiguity can misroute user intent and cause the system to prioritize the wrong flight criteria, leading to user harm through unsuitable travel results.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 92% confidence
Finding: The fallback condition '0 results from above playbooks' is underspecified because it does not define evaluation order, result thresholds, or safeguards before invoking a broader keyword search. In this skill, the broad fallback can expand from structured flight search into a generic query path, making unintended invocation more likely and potentially producing irrelevant or lower-trust results that do not align with the user's original booking intent.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 90% confidence
Finding: The instruction to always format prices in CNY imposes a specific locale/currency convention in natural language. The file does not indicate that the skill is region-specific or that users can opt into this locale, so it may violate language/locale policy expectations.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Low

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 92% confidence
Finding: The document instructs users to run a global npm installation command that modifies the host environment, but it provides no warning about system-wide changes, package trust, or the risks of installing executables from the registry. In an agent skill context, operational instructions can be surfaced or followed with little scrutiny, so this increases the chance of unnecessary privileged changes to a user's machine.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Low

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 95% confidence
Finding: This repeated fallback again tells the user to perform a global npm install without any caution about altering the environment, PATH, or requiring elevated permissions. Repetition in recovery instructions makes it more likely the step will be treated as routine and executed automatically or reflexively, which is risky in a travel-booking skill where such system changes are not core to the user task.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Low

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 90% confidence
Finding: The manifest says the skill is powered by Fliggy (Alibaba Group), but the template tells users results are 'Powered by flyai'. This is an explicit documentation-level contradiction about the underlying service identity, which can misrepresent the skill's actual backing or booking source.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.