Elderly Voice Assistant

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: May 29, 2026 at 9:24 PM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

The skill is a coherent elderly voice assistant, but it can monitor inactivity and notify family without clear opt-in, recipient, or disable controls.

Install only after the elderly user and any caregiver understand and agree to audio processing, voice-triggered messaging, and inactivity alerts. Before real use, make family notifications opt-in, set approved recipients and thresholds, add a simple pause/disable control, and require confirmation before sending messages.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• MCP Tool Poisoning: Hidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• 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 (2)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Medium

• Confidence: 90% confidence
• Finding: The proactive inactivity check can notify family members after 24 hours without user interaction, creating a behavioral-monitoring channel that goes beyond ordinary voice-assistant actions. For an elderly-focused assistant, this can expose presence, routines, or possible absence without explicit consent, making the privacy impact contextually significant.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 87% confidence
• Finding: The description advertises notifying family during inactivity but does not warn users that the assistant monitors usage patterns and may disclose them to third parties. This is a privacy-design issue because users may not expect passive monitoring and escalation from a tool framed as a simple voice assistant.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.