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Overview

This is a coherent AI news report skill that uses web search and an LLM to generate a Markdown file, with only disclosed optional scheduling to review before enabling.

Install if you want an AI-news report generator that can run web searches and create local Markdown reports. Review generated content before sharing because news summaries and numeric claims can be wrong. Only enable the optional cron or push workflow after choosing the schedule, destination channel, and any limits yourself.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (4)

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
The optional cron-based auto-push expands the skill from analysis/report generation into scheduled autonomous execution and outbound delivery. That increases operational risk because it can repeatedly run without an immediate user request, generate network activity, and send potentially inaccurate or sensitive summaries to external destinations if misconfigured.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
86% confidence
Finding
The top-level trigger phrases are broad enough to overlap with ordinary conversation about AI trends, which can cause the skill to activate unexpectedly. Unintended activation may lead to unnecessary web searches, file creation, and autonomous workflow execution the user did not explicitly request.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding
The example trigger phrases are similarly broad and lack boundary conditions, making accidental matches more likely in normal discussion. In this skill, misfire matters because activation can launch multi-step searches, synthesize content, and persist an artifact to disk.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs the agent to save output into the working directory, but the user is not clearly informed before file creation occurs. Silent persistence can violate user expectations, create unwanted artifacts, and in shared or sensitive environments expose generated content to other processes or users.

VirusTotal

63/63 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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