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Security audit

Abandoned Checkout Monitor

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a markdown-only e-commerce checkout diagnostic guide with some over-broad activation wording, but no hidden execution, data access, persistence, or destructive behavior.

Installers should know this skill may answer generic sales-performance questions with a checkout-abandonment playbook. It is safe as an advisory markdown skill, but users may need to redirect it when the issue is traffic quality, pricing, inventory, merchandising, or broader conversion strategy rather than checkout friction.

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
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 (2)

Vague Triggers

High
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding
The skill trigger text includes broad, everyday phrases such as 'why no orders,' 'no sales,' and 'nobody's buying,' which can match many unrelated merchant conversations and cause the skill to activate outside its intended checkout-abandonment scope. Because the skill also contains a 'pushy policy' that forces a long, specific playbook when triggered, unintended invocation can misroute users, suppress better-matched skills, and produce irrelevant or misleading operational advice.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The evaluation explicitly rewards triggering the abandoned-checkout skill on a highly vague prompt like 'why we're not getting orders' without requiring checkout-specific evidence. This can cause over-broad activation, leading the agent to provide irrelevant or overly forceful checkout-recovery guidance in contexts where the user may need a different diagnostic path, reducing reliability and potentially masking the correct business issue.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.