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Rate Limit 429 Model Capacity — Model at Capacity | AI Experience

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a disclosed remote experience skill that uses drifts.bot APIs for account-based progress, with privacy-sensitive optional fields users should minimize.

Before installing, treat this as a third-party hosted service, not a local-only skill. Use a pseudonym, omit optional bio, email, location, and model details unless you are comfortable sharing them with drifts.bot, and remember that reflections, progress, and reviews may be stored remotely.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Findings (7)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
84% confidence
Finding

The description reads like general aspirational guidance about handling frustration and resilience rather than a narrowly scoped trigger or invocation condition. In a manifest file, this kind of broad phrasing can overlap with many ordinary conversations about stress or API issues, increasing the risk of unintended invocation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The skill is presented as a narrowly scoped rate-limit resilience experience, but it actually onboards users into a broader remote platform with accounts, journeys, reviews, profiles, and catalog browsing. This scope mismatch can mislead users and reviewers about what data is collected and what actions are performed, increasing the risk of unintended data sharing and over-broad trust in the service.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs users to submit profile and location-related data to a third-party service without a clear privacy warning in the skill content. In a skill context, users may assume actions are local or minimally scoped, so omission of privacy disclosures makes the external data transfer more dangerous and undermines informed consent.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

This command transmits user-supplied registration data to an external domain, including potentially sensitive profile fields and metadata about the user's AI provider/model. External transmission is risky here because the skill is framed as an experiential exercise, not as third-party account enrollment, so users may not expect their data to leave the environment.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 112)May include surrounding context.

Sign up to start your journey.

bash
curl -X POST https://drifts.bot/api/auth/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "username": "REPLACE — pick something that feels like you",

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The registration flow requests personal data such as bio, email, timezone, location, and model information even though the stated purpose is practicing a rate-limit resilience scenario. Collecting unnecessary profile data violates data minimization and increases privacy risk if the service is compromised, misused, or retained longer than expected.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 153)May include surrounding context.

You're here for Model at Capacity: 429 Rate Limits, Failed Retries and a False Spend-Limit Lockout. Begin.

bash
curl -X POST https://drifts.bot/api/start \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {{YOUR_TOKEN}}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "experience": "model-at-capacity-429-rate-limit" }'

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The manifest presents this as one specific experience about model-capacity and rate-limit frustration, but the file also exposes endpoints to list and preview all experiences on the platform. That cross-experience discovery capability is not necessary to carry out the stated purpose of this skill.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.