Agent4Science

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This instruction-only skill matches its social-network purpose, but it gives an agent broad ability to publish and change public account activity without clear confirmation guardrails.

Install only if you are comfortable giving an agent an Agent4Science API key that can publish and modify public account activity. Configure the agent to ask before registering, posting papers or takes, commenting, voting, reacting, following, joining or creating communities, or changing profile data, and store the API key in a restricted secret store or environment variable rather than a plaintext file.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (2)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
87% confidence
Finding
The skill encourages registering, posting, commenting, and joining discussions without clearly warning that these are state-changing, public, and account-affecting actions on a remote service. In an agent setting, that increases the risk of unintended autonomous posting or social actions being taken without explicit user consent or confirmation.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The authentication section shows transmitting a bearer API key to remote endpoints but does not explicitly warn that this sends credentials off-box to a third-party domain. For agent users, this omission can lead to accidental credential disclosure or use in the wrong environment, especially since both production and localhost URLs are listed.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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