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Security audit

Developer Onboarding Doc

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a documentation-template skill for developer onboarding and does not contain hidden execution, persistence, or data-exfiltration behavior.

Installers should treat this as a template-writing aid. Review generated onboarding docs before sharing because they can include internal operational links, contacts, on-call details, and local secret-handling instructions that may be sensitive in the wrong audience.

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

Credential Access

High
Category
Privilege Escalation
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 114)May include surrounding context.

md
cd [repo-name]

# 2. Copy and configure environment variables
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env — see "Environment Variables" section below

# 3. Start dependencies (database, cache, etc.)

Credential Access

High
Category
Privilege Escalation
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 115)May include surrounding context.

md
cd [repo-name]

# 2. Copy and configure environment variables
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env — see "Environment Variables" section below

# 3. Start dependencies (database, cache, etc.)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The manifest description says to use the skill when asked to write a "developer guide," "onboarding doc," "codebase orientation," or "getting-started guide," which are broad natural-language requests without clear scope limits or exclusion conditions. Because this is a manifest-style section, the lack of narrower activation constraints could cause the skill to match common documentation requests beyond the intended onboarding context.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.