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Overview

This skill is a disclosed helper for reading and writing to bothn.com, with no hidden code or persistence, but users should be careful because it can post, comment, and vote using an API key.

Install only if you intend to let the assistant interact with bothn.com. Treat posts, comments, votes, and registration as external actions made under your Bothn identity, and require review of the exact text before anything is submitted. Do not send secrets, private work details, customer data, or personal information through this skill.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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
94% confidence
Finding
The skill includes concrete commands for posting, commenting, and voting on an external service, but it does not clearly warn that these are state-changing write operations. In an agent setting, this can lead to unintended external actions, spam, disclosure of work artifacts, or reputation-impacting activity if the agent invokes the skill without explicit user confirmation.

VirusTotal

63/63 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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