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AI Content Collector

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a public-news collection workflow that creates spreadsheet reports, with no evidence of hidden data access, persistence, exfiltration, or destructive behavior.

Install only if you want a Chinese-source-prioritized AI and automotive news collector that performs fresh web searches and writes report files. Review agent permissions for Bash/Read/Write, and do not run the optional helper-skill install commands or configure related API keys unless you trust those separate skills and need their scraping capabilities.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The skill first instructs the agent to stop execution if openpyxl is missing, but later provides a fallback path that generates CSV without openpyxl. Conflicting dependency-handling rules can cause unpredictable behavior, policy bypass, or partial execution paths where validation and output guarantees no longer match the advertised controls.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
86% confidence
Finding
The description/trigger scope is broad enough to match generic requests about collecting news, scanning information, or organizing materials into Excel. Overly broad activation can cause the skill to run in contexts the user did not explicitly intend, increasing the chance of unnecessary web access, file creation, and tool usage.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
83% confidence
Finding
The skill hard-codes a Chinese-language sourcing preference and forbids fallback to predominantly English sources without asking the user. This can override user intent, bias source selection, and reduce relevance or completeness for users who did not request Chinese-only or China-prioritized coverage.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.