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Protein Mining

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This Markdown-only skill describes a protein-mining bioinformatics workflow and does not include code, installers, persistence, credential use, or hidden access.

Before installing or using it, confirm where outputs will be written, run it in a dedicated project directory, and make sure the needed bioinformatics tools, compute resources, and storage are available. Treat the workflow as guidance for a substantial local analysis pipeline, not as a small lightweight 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
  • 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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (2)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
82% confidence
Finding
The manifest description that defines the skill's purpose is written only in Chinese, and the body also primarily describes behavior in Chinese. SQP-3 applies to all file types and flags language-policy issues when a skill effectively forces a specific language without opt-in or a documented regional justification.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
87% confidence
Finding
The skill advertises a large multi-stage workflow that generates many files and directories, but it does not warn users about disk usage, output locations, or overwrite behavior. In practice, bioinformatics pipelines can create substantial local artifacts and may overwrite existing results or fill disks, causing data loss, failed runs, or disruption of other workloads on shared systems.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.