Security audit

Agent-Powered P2P Energy Trading for Prosumer Microgrids

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a non-executable educational guide, but it teaches financial escrow and physical energy-asset control workflows without enough safety, authorization, or production-use guardrails.

Read this as a high-impact integration guide, not a drop-in production recipe. Use sandbox credentials first; do not connect production payment keys, real smart-meter data, or physical battery controllers until you have explicit owner consent, operator approval workflows, device-scoped authorization, transaction limits, idempotency, rollback/reconciliation, and local safety interlocks.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Insecure Skill Coding PracticesFinds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
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

Findings (3)

other

Warning

Location: SKILL.md:174
Finding: Excessive Disclosure of Household and Critical-Grid Metadata
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Remediation: View remediation

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Warning

Location: SKILL.md:574
Finding: Non-Transactional Escrow and SLA Workflow Is Described as Atomic
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Remediation: View remediation

T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation

Error

Location: SKILL.md:827
Finding: Safety-Critical Battery Dispatch Lacks Demonstrated Authorization and Operational Guardrails
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Remediation: View remediation

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (2)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 95% confidence
Finding: The escrow and settlement examples show how to create escrows, execute trades, and release funds, but they do not prominently warn that using production endpoints or real API keys could lock, transfer, or dispute actual money. Because the skill references live credentials like GREENHELIX_API_KEY and STRIPE_API_KEY, a user may underestimate the financial consequences of copying the sample flow outside the sandbox.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 93% confidence
Finding: The guide provides concrete examples for autonomous battery discharge, load shedding, and emergency island-mode actions against physical energy assets without a prominent safety warning, human-approval gate, or simulation-only constraint. In a real deployment, readers could adapt these patterns to trigger unsafe control actions that affect power availability, equipment protection, or essential services, making the omission materially dangerous even though the file is presented as educational.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.