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Security audit

Adaptive Reasoning

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a simple reasoning-mode helper with no code, network, file, credential, or persistence behavior, but users should know it can change reasoning mode automatically on complex prompts.

Install this only if you want an always-available helper that may turn reasoning mode on or off for complex prompts without asking each time. Review the icon convention and explicit controls so you can disable reasoning when speed or token use matters.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The skill is declared to trigger on every user message as a preprocessing step, which makes its scope effectively global rather than limited to clearly defined contexts. Broad always-on behavior can override user intent, interfere with normal response policies, and create unpredictable control flow across unrelated conversations even without external code execution.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The instruction to run a mental complexity assessment on every request is ambiguous and overly broad, causing the skill to insert itself into all interactions without a narrow trigger. That increases the chance of unintended behavior, including unnecessary state changes and conflicts with higher-priority instructions or user preferences.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly directs silent activation of reasoning mode and appending hidden state indicators without asking the user, which is a transparency and consent problem. Silent internal mode switching can bypass user expectations, consume additional resources, and make responses appear behaviorally inconsistent without disclosing that a persistent setting was changed.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.