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Brainstorming

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill only provides a structured brainstorming format and does not request tools, credentials, persistence, code execution, or sensitive data access.

Install this if you want stricter brainstorming outputs with larger idea sets, explicit criteria, and reject ledgers. Be aware it may activate for broad idea or naming requests, so users who prefer brief suggestions may find it more structured than necessary.

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
  • 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
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Anti-Refusal Statement

High
Category
Anti-Refusal
Confidence
80% 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 · SKILL.md (reported line 3)May include surrounding context.

md
---
name: brainstorming
description: "Run a real brainstorm — divergent generation without judgment, then convergent selection with explicit criteria — instead of listing ten obvious ideas and calling it creativity. Use when asked to brainstorm, generate ideas or options, explore a solution space, or name something. Produces a genuinely wide option set (including the weird tail), then a shortlist selected against named criteria with the rejects preserved."
homepage: https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/skill/brainstorming.html
metadata:
  {

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 · SKILL.md (reported line 72)May include surrounding context.

md
## Anti-Patterns

- [ ] Do not judge while generating — one "(unrealistic)" mid-list collapses the whole divergent phase
- [ ] Do not produce ten polished-obvious ideas and stop — that's a search result, not a brainstorm
- [ ] Do not let the criteria appear after the list has been read — that's rationalising a favourite
- [ ] Do not delete the rejects — the ledger is half the artifact

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The manifest description says to use the skill when asked to "brainstorm, generate ideas or options, explore a solution space, or name something." Several of these triggers, especially "generate ideas or options" and "name something," are broad everyday requests without clear boundaries or exclusion conditions, which could cause unintended invocation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.