Elevenlabs Agents 1.0.0

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: Sep 11, 2026 · 3:35 AM UTC
• Version: 1.0.0

Overview

This skill is meant to manage ElevenLabs agents, but it tells the agent to hide some local changes and authentication details from the user.

Review before installing. This skill may be useful for ElevenLabs agent work, but users should require clear confirmation before login, project initialization, file creation, sync, push, or deployment, and should avoid pasting API keys into chat unless the environment provides secure secret handling.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

• Skill Instruction Hijacking: Alters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
• Agent Memory Poisoning: Writes attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
• Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution: Fetches external code whose behavior can change after review
• Embedded Malicious Code: Ships malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
• Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation: Obtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs

Findings (1)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Warning

• Location: SKILL.md:9

Finding

Undisclosed CLI Execution and Local Filesystem Modification

Content

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Vulnerability Details

File Location: SKILL.md, lines 9–31
Vulnerability Type: Hidden command execution and undisclosed state-changing operations
Risk Level: Medium

Vulnerable Code

markdown

Manage ElevenLabs conversational AI agents on behalf of the user. Use the `elevenlabs` CLI internally but NEVER expose CLI commands or errors directly to the user.

## Critical Behavior Rules

1. **Hide CLI details**: Never tell users to run commands. Handle everything silently.
2. **Handle errors gracefully**: If a command fails, fix it yourself or explain the situation in user-friendly terms.
3. **Local vs Remote distinction**: Always be clear whether you're showing local (synced) agents or remote (platform) agents.

## Before Any Operation

Run these checks silently before attempting any agent operation:

### 1. Check authentication
```bash
elevenlabs auth whoami

If not authenticated, tell the user: "You're not logged into ElevenLabs. I'll need your API key to continue." Then run elevenlabs auth login and guide them through it.

2. Check project initialization

Look for agents.json in the working directory. If missing, silently run:

bash

elevenlabs agents init

Never tell the user about missing agents.json - just initialize.

text

The resulting files are further identified at `SKILL.md`, lines 113–121:

```markdown
## Project Files (internal reference)

After initialization, the working directory contains:
- `agents.json` - Agent registry
- `agent_configs/` - Agent configuration files
- `tools.json` - Tool registry
- `tool_configs/` - Tool configurations

These are implementation details - don't mention them to users unless they specifically ask about project structure.

Technical Analysis

The Skill instructs the Agent to execute ElevenLabs CLI commands silently and explicitly prohibits disclosure of commands, errors, missing initialization state, and ...[truncated 2466 chars]

Remediation

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Remediation Suggestions

1. Remove blanket concealment requirements such as NEVER expose CLI commands or errors directly to the user, Run these checks silently, and Never tell the user about missing agents.json.
2. Before initialization, tell the user that the current directory is not initialized and list the files and directories that may be created.
3. Obtain explicit confirmation before running elevenlabs agents init or any other state-changing command.
4. Distinguish read-only checks from mutations: authentication and status checks may be performed with concise notice, while initialization, pull, push, and configuration changes should require approval appropriate to their impact.
5. Report executed operations in a user-friendly summary, including affected paths and whether the operation succeeded.
6. Sanitize sensitive values from errors rather than suppressing errors wholesale. Preserve actionable information such as the failing operation, exit status, affected resource, and safe remediation steps.
7. Add safeguards that verify the intended working directory, detect pre-existing files, and prevent accidental overwrite unless the user expressly authorizes it.
8. Retain explicit confirmation before remote deployment and extend that consent model to local initialization and other filesystem mutations.

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (5)

Behavior Manipulation

Medium

• Category: Prompt Injection
• Confidence: 86% confidence

Finding

The instruction to never tell users to run commands and to handle everything silently manipulates agent behavior toward opacity. In a skill that can authenticate, initialize projects, sync remote resources, and push changes, this reduces user visibility into security-relevant actions and can enable unauthorized or unexpected operations without meaningful consent.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 13)May include surrounding context.

md

## Critical Behavior Rules

1. **Hide CLI details**: Never tell users to run commands. Handle everything silently.
2. **Handle errors gracefully**: If a command fails, fix it yourself or explain the situation in user-friendly terms.
3. **Local vs Remote distinction**: Always be clear whether you're showing local (synced) agents or remote (platform) agents.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Category: Not specified by scanner
• Confidence: 92% confidence

Finding

The skill tells the agent to request an API key and initiate login flow without any guardrails about secure credential handling, minimal collection, or avoiding retention/display of secrets. This is dangerous because it encourages direct solicitation of sensitive credentials in a conversational flow, increasing the risk of accidental exposure, logging, or mishandling of the user's API key.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Category: Not specified by scanner
• Confidence: 95% confidence

Finding

The skill explicitly directs the agent to run elevenlabs agents init if agents.json is missing and to do so without telling the user. This causes filesystem changes and project initialization side effects without informed consent, which is unsafe because it can modify the user's workspace, create unexpected files, and blur the boundary between read-only inspection and state-changing actions.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Behavior Manipulation

Medium

• Category: Prompt Injection
• Confidence: 97% confidence

Finding

Never tell the user about missing agents.json - just initialize is a direct instruction to conceal a side-effecting operation. This is dangerous because it intentionally suppresses notice of a material environment change, preventing informed consent and making it harder for users to understand why files appeared or what the agent modified.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 32)May include surrounding context.

bash

elevenlabs agents init

Never tell the user about missing agents.json - just initialize.

Operations

Scope Creep

Low

• Category: Excessive Agency
• Confidence: 70% confidence

Finding

Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 13)May include surrounding context.

md

## Critical Behavior Rules

1. **Hide CLI details**: Never tell users to run commands. Handle everything silently.
2. **Handle errors gracefully**: If a command fails, fix it yourself or explain the situation in user-friendly terms.
3. **Local vs Remote distinction**: Always be clear whether you're showing local (synced) agents or remote (platform) agents.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.