Legacy Code Addition Techniques

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a transparent coding guide for adding tested changes to legacy code, with only normal repository edit authority and no hidden install or data-access behavior.

Install this only when you want an agent to edit legacy code and run tests in your repository. Review the resulting diff carefully because the skill is intended for time-constrained changes in areas that may lack existing tests, and treat the mismatched crypto/purchase tags as metadata noise rather than behavior shown in the artifact.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • 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
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (1)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The manifest description contains many broad, conversational trigger phrases such as 'I have to add this feature fast', 'no time for a big refactor', and 'just need to log this', which could cause the skill to activate from ordinary developer chatter rather than an explicit request to use this specific technique. In an agentic coding environment, over-broad activation can steer users into making risky legacy-code changes under time pressure and bypass safer, more deliberate workflows.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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