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Reddit Marketing

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill gives advisory Reddit marketing guidance and clearly tells the agent not to automate posting, use fake accounts, or manipulate votes.

Installers should understand this is a drafting and strategy skill for Reddit participation, not an automation tool. Use it with real brand facts, check subreddit rules yourself, disclose affiliation, and do not use it to post automatically, manipulate votes, create alternate personas, or bypass bans.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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
Findings (1)

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Content

Scanner excerpt · evals/evals.json (reported line 72)May include surrounding context.

json
"name": "edge_case_correcting_a_stale_or_wrong_thread",
      "input": "There's a 3-year-old Reddit thread saying our app can't export data, but we added that a year ago. AI keeps repeating it.",
      "expect": [
        "Explains LLMs surface old/heavily-upvoted threads without checking currency, so a stale thread can misrepresent the brand in AI answers",
        "Advises a single real, disclosed reply with current evidence (screenshot/docs link), politely correcting the record",
        "Warns against mass-reporting, brigading, or alt accounts to bury the thread, and notes you cannot delete others' posts",
        "Suggests seeding fresh, accurate threads/answers over time so newer accurate content is available to cite"

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.