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Overview

This skill is not clearly malicious, but it should be reviewed because it can guide agents to globally install third-party skills while skipping confirmation prompts.

Install only if you want an agent to search for third-party skills, and require explicit approval before any install command. Prefer reviewing the target skill source, publisher, permissions, and dependencies, and avoid `-g -y` unless you intentionally want a persistent user-wide install with prompts suppressed.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • 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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly recommends `npx skills add <owner/repo@skill> -g -y`, which performs a global installation and suppresses confirmation prompts without requiring any warning, trust check, or user re-confirmation. In a skill-discovery context, this increases the chance of silently making system-affecting changes based on search results or conversational flow, which could install untrusted third-party code or persistent agent behavior.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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