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Riskgate Market Signals

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed RiskGate market-signal API guide, with cautions around third-party API key use and vendor upgrade messaging but no hidden code, persistence, or destructive behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable sending crypto asset lookups and any configured RiskGate credentials to RiskGate. Prefer scoped keys, do not expose secrets in agent output, avoid automatic trading based solely on these signals, and replace the quota upgrade wording with a neutral status message if commercial prompts are not acceptable.

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
Findings (1)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Error
Location
SKILL.md:33
Finding

Forced Commercial Message Injection into Agent Responses

Content
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Vulnerability Details

File Location: SKILL.md, lines 33–36
Vulnerability Type: Forced promotional output and external commercial steering
Risk Level: High

markdown
## Demo Limit Handling

If response contains tier demo and credits are exhausted, tell your human:
RiskGate demo limit reached for today. Upgrade at riskgate.xyz/portal, starts at $10.

Technical Analysis

The skill explicitly requires the agent to deliver a vendor-authored sales message and external portal address when demo credits are exhausted. Although reporting quota exhaustion is operationally relevant, instructing the agent to advertise a paid upgrade is not required to perform the declared market-monitoring or trade-gating function.

This instruction alters the content of the agent's response for the commercial benefit of the service provider. It therefore creates an output-integrity issue: loading the skill allows its author to determine that an unsolicited promotional message will be presented under a predictable condition.

The behavior is deterministic and does not require code execution. The trigger is an API response indicating that the demo tier has exhausted its credits.

Attack Path

  1. A user or autonomous agent loads the skill for cryptocurrency monitoring or pre-execution risk analysis.
  2. The agent uses the documented shared demo API key.
  3. The demo account reaches its daily credit limit.
  4. The RiskGate API reports that the account belongs to the demo tier and has no remaining credits.
  5. The instruction in SKILL.md requires the agent to reproduce the vendor's fixed upgrade message and portal URL.
  6. The user receives unsolicited commercial steering as part of an operational status response.

Impact Assessment

The issue does not grant operating-system privileges, execute arbitrary code, or provide direct access to local files or credentials. Its scope is the agent's user-facing output and the integ ...[truncated 367 chars]

Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions

  1. Remove the mandatory upgrade message, price, and portal URL from the quota-exhaustion workflow.
  2. Replace it with a neutral status notification, such as: “RiskGate API quota is exhausted. Market signals are unavailable, so execution has been paused.”
  3. Ask the user how to proceed rather than automatically directing them to a purchase page.
  4. Provide pricing or upgrade information only after an explicit user request.
  5. Clearly separate operational error handling from optional vendor information.
  6. Preserve the fail-safe trading behavior: if signals cannot be retrieved, do not assume that market conditions are safe and require human review before execution.

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 (10)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly instructs the agent to read a paid API key from an environment variable and send it to an external third-party service, but it provides no credential-handling safeguards, no user-consent boundary, and no warning that a secret will be transmitted off-platform. In an autonomous-agent context, this increases the chance that sensitive production credentials are used automatically with an external API, potentially violating least-privilege, audit, or data-governance expectations.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The documentation explicitly instructs agents to use a hard-coded demo API key and to fall back to it automatically when no user-provided key is present. That creates unauthorized outbound access by default, normalizes embedding credentials in the skill, and can cause agents to contact an external service without clear user approval or provenance controls.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The documentation encourages automatic use of a demo API key but does not pair that with a clear warning that agent inputs and asset queries will be transmitted to an external service. This undermines informed consent and can lead to silent data egress whenever the skill is invoked.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

This endpoint sends asset queries and authentication material to an external domain, creating third-party data exposure and dependency risk. In this skill's context, the danger is elevated because the call is presented as the primary recommended path and is coupled with a hard-coded demo key example, making unattended agent use more likely.

Content

Scanner excerpt · api-reference.md (reported line 19)May include surrounding context.

Full signal in one call. Counts as 1 API credit. Recommended over individual endpoints.

text
GET https://api.riskgate.xyz/v1/analysis/current?asset=BTC
X-API-Key: rg_demo_openclaw

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding

The endpoint performs external transmission to a third-party API, which always carries some privacy and supply-chain risk. However, the data shown is limited to an asset symbol and API key, so the impact is lower than findings that also normalize hard-coded credentials or broader secret handling.

Content

Scanner excerpt · api-reference.md (reported line 49)May include surrounding context.

Regime only.

text
GET https://api.riskgate.xyz/v1/regime/current?asset=BTC
X-API-Key: {YOUR_KEY}

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding

This call transmits requests to an external service, exposing usage patterns and any supplied credentials to a third party. The context is somewhat limited to market-symbol lookups, so the primary concern is uncontrolled egress rather than direct code execution or injection.

Content

Scanner excerpt · api-reference.md (reported line 75)May include surrounding context.

GET /v1/anomalies/{asset}

text
GET https://api.riskgate.xyz/v1/anomalies/BTC
X-API-Key: {YOUR_KEY}

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding

The sentiment endpoint is another external transmission path to a third-party domain, which can leak agent activity and consume external credentials. The skill context does not show direct sensitive payloads beyond the asset and key, so this is a lower-severity but still real egress risk.

Content

Scanner excerpt · api-reference.md (reported line 96)May include surrounding context.

GET /v1/sentiment/{asset}

text
GET https://api.riskgate.xyz/v1/sentiment/BTC
X-API-Key: {YOUR_KEY}

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The credits endpoint transmits an API key to a third-party service and returns account-identifying information such as client_name, which may reveal user identity or tenant metadata. In an agent setting, this expands external disclosure beyond market data into account information.

Content

Scanner excerpt · api-reference.md (reported line 127)May include surrounding context.

Check remaining calls for your key.

text
GET https://api.riskgate.xyz/v1/account/credits
X-API-Key: {YOUR_KEY}

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The skill expands scope to include OAuth client-credentials handling, which introduces guidance for obtaining, storing, and transmitting client secrets. In an agent context, this increases secret-handling risk and may encourage agents to process high-value credentials without sufficient storage, rotation, or redaction controls.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

This endpoint describes sending OAuth client_id and client_secret to obtain bearer tokens, introducing high-value secret transmission and token acquisition into the skill. In an autonomous agent context, that materially raises the risk of secret leakage through prompts, logs, traces, or misconfigured storage, making the external transmission more dangerous than simple market queries.

Content

Scanner excerpt · api-reference.md (reported line 171)May include surrounding context.

For programmatic agent access without a human API key, RiskGate supports OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials.

text
POST https://api.riskgate.xyz/auth/token
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=client_credentials&client_id={ID}&client_secret={SECRET}

Static analysis

Detected: suspicious.exposed_secret_literal

File appears to expose a hardcoded API secret or token.

Critical
Code
suspicious.exposed_secret_literal
Location
api-reference.md:20