Security audit

Anthropology

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a Markdown-only anthropology teaching skill with formatting issues but no code, hidden instructions, data access, or persistence.

This appears safe to install from a security perspective, but it may be much smaller than advertised because the package only includes one Markdown skill file. Treat it as an educational prompt and independently verify academic accuracy and licensing as needed.

A.I.G

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

SkillSpector

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 (26)

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - Content is organized in seven phases: - 1. **Foundations**: Disciplinary overview and core methods 2. 2. **Cultural Anthropology**: In-depth exploration of cultural topics 3. 3. **Biological Anthropology**: Human evolution and biological diversity 4. 4. **Archaeological Anthropology**: Methods and prehistoric sequences 5. 5. **Linguistic Anthropology**: Language diversity and communication 6. 6. **Regional & Topical Studies**: Geographic and specialized topics
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - 1. **Foundations**: Disciplinary overview and core methods 2. 2. **Cultural Anthropology**: In-depth exploration of cultural topics 3. 3. **Biological Anthropology**: Human evolution and biological diversity 4. 4. **Archaeological Anthropology**: Methods and prehistoric sequences 5. 5. **Linguistic Anthropology**: Language diversity and communication 6. 6. **Regional & Topical Studies**: Geographic and specialized topics 7. 7. **Integration & Pedagogy**: Cross-cutting themes and teaching frameworks
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 2. 2. **Cultural Anthropology**: In-depth exploration of cultural topics 3. 3. **Biological Anthropology**: Human evolution and biological diversity 4. 4. **Archaeological Anthropology**: Methods and prehistoric sequences 5. 5. **Linguistic Anthropology**: Language diversity and communication 6. 6. **Regional & Topical Studies**: Geographic and specialized topics 7. 7. **Integration & Pedagogy**: Cross-cutting themes and teaching frameworks
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 3. 3. **Biological Anthropology**: Human evolution and biological diversity 4. 4. **Archaeological Anthropology**: Methods and prehistoric sequences 5. 5. **Linguistic Anthropology**: Language diversity and communication 6. 6. **Regional & Topical Studies**: Geographic and specialized topics 7. 7. **Integration & Pedagogy**: Cross-cutting themes and teaching frameworks 8. ## Example Queries
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 4. 4. **Archaeological Anthropology**: Methods and prehistoric sequences 5. 5. **Linguistic Anthropology**: Language diversity and communication 6. 6. **Regional & Topical Studies**: Geographic and specialized topics 7. 7. **Integration & Pedagogy**: Cross-cutting themes and teaching frameworks 8. ## Example Queries
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 5. 5. **Linguistic Anthropology**: Language diversity and communication 6. 6. **Regional & Topical Studies**: Geographic and specialized topics 7. 7. **Integration & Pedagogy**: Cross-cutting themes and teaching frameworks 8. ## Example Queries 9. - "What are the four subfields of anthropology?"
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 5. 5. **Linguistic Anthropology**: Language diversity and communication 6. 6. **Regional & Topical Studies**: Geographic and specialized topics 7. 7. **Integration & Pedagogy**: Cross-cutting themes and teaching frameworks 8. ## Example Queries 9. - "What are the four subfields of anthropology?"
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 6. 6. **Regional & Topical Studies**: Geographic and specialized topics 7. 7. **Integration & Pedagogy**: Cross-cutting themes and teaching frameworks 8. ## Example Queries 9. - "What are the four subfields of anthropology?" - - "Explain the Kula ring exchange system"
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 6. 6. **Regional & Topical Studies**: Geographic and specialized topics 7. 7. **Integration & Pedagogy**: Cross-cutting themes and teaching frameworks 8. ## Example Queries 9. - "What are the four subfields of anthropology?" - - "Explain the Kula ring exchange system"
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 8. ## Example Queries 9. - "What are the four subfields of anthropology?" - - "Explain the Kula ring exchange system" - - "What do we know about Neanderthals?" - - "How do kinship systems vary across cultures?" - - "What are the major language families?"
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 9. - "What are the four subfields of anthropology?" - - "Explain the Kula ring exchange system" - - "What do we know about Neanderthals?" - - "How do kinship systems vary across cultures?" - - "What are the major language families?" - - "Discuss the relationship between culture and biology"
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: 9. - "What are the four subfields of anthropology?" - - "Explain the Kula ring exchange system" - - "What do we know about Neanderthals?" - - "How do kinship systems vary across cultures?" - - "What are the major language families?" - - "Discuss the relationship between culture and biology" - - "What is linguistic relativism?"
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "Explain the Kula ring exchange system" - - "What do we know about Neanderthals?" - - "How do kinship systems vary across cultures?" - - "What are the major language families?" - - "Discuss the relationship between culture and biology" - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods"
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "What do we know about Neanderthals?" - - "How do kinship systems vary across cultures?" - - "What are the major language families?" - - "Discuss the relationship between culture and biology" - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods"
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "How do kinship systems vary across cultures?" - - "What are the major language families?" - - "Discuss the relationship between culture and biology" - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "What are the major language families?" - - "Discuss the relationship between culture and biology" - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "Discuss the relationship between culture and biology" - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License - AGPL-3.0 license
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "Discuss the relationship between culture and biology" - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License - AGPL-3.0 license
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "Discuss the relationship between culture and biology" - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License - AGPL-3.0 license
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License - AGPL-3.0 license
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License - AGPL-3.0 license
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License - AGPL-3.0 license
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License - AGPL-3.0 license
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License - AGPL-3.0 license
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Whitespace Padding

Medium

Category: Prompt Injection
Content: - - "What is linguistic relativism?" - - "Explain archaeological dating methods" - ## License - AGPL-3.0 license
Confidence: 70% confidence
Finding: Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.