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Startup Problem Finder

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a text-only startup review skill whose file and search use is disclosed and aligned with its purpose.

Before using it, remove credentials, bank details, customer lists, unpublished contracts, and other unnecessary confidential material from startup documents. Use it for diagnostic review, not as legal, tax, valuation, securities, transaction, or investment advice.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (6)

Anti-Refusal Statement

High
Category
Anti-Refusal
Confidence
85% confidence
Finding

Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

Content

Scanner excerpt · dist/startup-problem-finder.zip!/startup-problem-finder/references/narrative-recipes.md (reported line 76)May include surrounding context.

md
## Fundraising Story

Judge whether the current facts form a coherent reason for capital now and a
credible next milestone. Do not judge financing probability.

Inspect whether these parts connect:

Anti-Refusal Statement

High
Category
Anti-Refusal
Confidence
85% confidence
Finding

Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/narrative-recipes.md (reported line 76)May include surrounding context.

md
## Fundraising Story

Judge whether the current facts form a coherent reason for capital now and a
credible next milestone. Do not judge financing probability.

Inspect whether these parts connect:

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

This markdown file defines natural-language triggers, so SQP-1 applies. Phrases like "What is weak in this project?" and "Review this pitch deck" are broad and could match many general critique or document-review situations without clearly delimiting when this specific startup-investor-focused skill should activate.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 140)May include surrounding context.

md
smallest useful substitute.

Ask four to eight concise questions. Every question must concern the project or
idea, not the assistant's preferred workflow. Do not ask the user to choose an
analysis angle or select between business, deck, narrative, or meeting review.

Useful question areas include:

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill enables implicit invocation without any visible trigger constraints, allowing the agent to auto-select this skill based on broad semantic matches rather than explicit user intent. Because this skill analyzes startup materials that may include sensitive business plans, fundraising strategy, and pitch content, unintended invocation could cause unnecessary exposure of private data to the skill or produce unsolicited analysis in contexts where the user did not mean to use it.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Content

Scanner excerpt · dist/startup-problem-finder.zip!/startup-problem-finder/SKILL.md (reported line 140)May include surrounding context.

md
smallest useful substitute.

Ask four to eight concise questions. Every question must concern the project or
idea, not the assistant's preferred workflow. Do not ask the user to choose an
analysis angle or select between business, deck, narrative, or meeting review.

Useful question areas include:

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.