Reciprocity Strategy Designer

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: May 29, 2026 at 9:33 PM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

This is an instruction-only persuasion skill, but it teaches tactics for creating social obligation and reducing transparency to increase compliance, so users should review it carefully before installing.

Install only if you want a persuasion-analysis skill and can enforce your own ethical and legal boundaries. Do not use it to pressure vulnerable people, hide persuasive intent, create guilt or obligation, or autonomously generate/send sales, fundraising, outreach, or negotiation messages without human review.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• 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 (8)

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The metadata description is extremely broad and repeatedly frames the skill as usable for influence, compliance, sales, and negotiation across many ordinary contexts. That expansive scope increases the chance the skill will be invoked for manipulative persuasion rather than narrow, bounded, defensive, or ethical use.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 94% confidence
• Finding: The 'When to Use' section provides many activation triggers for influencing decisions but lacks guardrails, negative examples, or threshold checks for appropriateness. In practice this makes the skill easy to activate in borderline or abusive persuasion scenarios, especially where a user seeks to bypass informed consent or create social obligation.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

High

• Confidence: 99% confidence
• Finding: The line advises users to 'reduce transparency of the sequence' when targets are aware of influence tactics, which directly encourages concealment of manipulative intent. Concealing persuasive mechanisms to preserve effectiveness undermines informed decision-making and meaningfully increases the risk of deceptive or exploitative use.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

High

• Confidence: 99% confidence
• Finding: The skill explicitly recommends unsolicited gifts because they create stronger obligation, which is a textbook manipulation pattern designed to exploit reciprocity rather than support informed choice. In this context, the danger is heightened because the document operationalizes the tactic with step-by-step guidance for marketing, sales, and negotiation settings.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

High

• Confidence: 97% confidence
• Finding: This passage endorses retaliatory exploitation by telling users they may accept offers and exploit the other party in return. Even in a defense section, normalizing exploitation escalates adversarial behavior and can encourage unethical conduct, fraud-adjacent tactics, or deliberate bad-faith dealing.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 97% confidence
• Finding: This reference material gives detailed, operational guidance for exploiting reciprocity and concession dynamics to induce compliance, including quantified effectiveness data, amplifier conditions, and advice for overcoming resistance, while providing little meaningful ethical framing or guardrails. In the context of a skill explicitly designed to create persuasion strategies, this materially increases the risk of deceptive social engineering, coercive marketing, and manipulation of vulnerable targets.

Ssd 4

Medium

• Confidence: 98% confidence
• Finding: This section lays out a multi-step sequence that intentionally creates felt debt through a gift and then times a follow-up ask to convert that obligation into compliance. Because the skill is specifically about persuasion strategy design, the context makes this more dangerous than a neutral educational discussion: it is actionable playbook content for manipulation.

Ssd 4

Medium

• Confidence: 97% confidence
• Finding: The rejection-then-retreat section provides a staged pressure tactic that conditions the target through contrast and reciprocal concession to secure the real request. Although presented as negotiation advice, it operationalizes progressive pressure and can be used to steer people into agreements they would be less likely to accept if asked directly.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.