Authority Signal Designer

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: May 29, 2026 at 8:38 PM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

This is a text-only persuasion and credibility-writing skill with clear ethical checks and no hidden code, persistence, or data exfiltration behavior found.

Install only if you want an assistant to help shape credibility or evaluate authority claims. Verify every title, credential, logo, metric, endorsement, and affiliation before publishing, and do not use the skill to imply expertise, institutional backing, or trustworthiness that cannot be substantiated.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (2)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: The content explicitly frames authority signals as mechanisms for triggering automatic deference and states that designing them means engineering the trigger rather than writing an argument. In a skill meant to help users build bios, landing pages, and trust signals, that crosses from descriptive education into operational persuasion guidance without guardrails against deceptive or coercive use.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: This section gives concrete, actionable instructions for combining titles, visual signals, and status trappings to activate automatic trust across multiple channels simultaneously. Because it is presented as a legitimate positioning recipe without an accompanying ethics and verification framework, it can be readily repurposed for deceptive marketing, impersonation, or manipulation of user decision-making.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.