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Academic Research

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill performs ordinary academic paper search and literature review tasks, with disclosed external API use and local output/cache files.

Install this if you are comfortable sending academic queries, author names, and DOIs to OpenAlex or Unpaywall. Use ordinary project-local output filenames, avoid writing to configuration or system paths, and clear /tmp/litreview_cache on shared machines or for sensitive research topics.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (2)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The skill advertises and instructs use of scripts that perform network access, read data, and write output/cache files, but it does not declare any permissions. Undeclared capabilities reduce transparency and can bypass least-privilege review, making it harder for operators to understand that the skill can reach external services and write local data.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
84% confidence
Finding
The description and trigger language are broad enough to match generic research, synthesis, and reference-gathering requests, which could cause the skill to activate in contexts the user did not intend. Over-broad activation is risky because this skill can make network requests and write files, so accidental invocation may expose queries externally or produce side effects unexpectedly.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.