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Security audit

Cloud Architect Design Free

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is mostly a cloud-architecture advice skill, but it asks for shell execution access and has mismatched trigger instructions that could activate it outside its stated purpose.

Install only if you are comfortable with a cloud-advice skill receiving shell execution permission. Prefer a version that removes exec access and corrects the trigger section to cloud architecture tasks only.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Findings (5)

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The trigger section defines broad, unrelated creative-design scenarios for invoking a cloud architecture skill, making routing boundaries unclear. Poorly scoped triggers are dangerous because they can cause the agent to load a skill with unnecessary permissions or irrelevant behavior in contexts where it should never run.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

Granting exec capability to a skill whose stated purpose is generating cloud architecture recommendations violates least privilege. Even without explicit malicious commands, the extra capability expands the attack surface if the skill is invoked under adversarial prompting or combined with conflicting instructions elsewhere in the file.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding

The capability coverage keywords are expansive, fragmented, and not bounded by precise trigger rules or exclusions. In context, this makes the skill easier to activate on loosely related prompts and increases the chance of overreach, especially since the skill also advertises unnecessary exec access.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

The trigger condition says the skill should be used for creative design, UI, posters, and branding, which directly contradicts the rest of the document describing a cloud architecture advisory skill. Ambiguous or incorrect invocation guidance can cause the agent to activate this skill in unrelated contexts, increasing the chance of inappropriate tool access and misleading outputs.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill claims it is pure Markdown, does not require exec, and does not connect to cloud APIs, yet the metadata allows exec and the error handling instructs the agent to run ping. This inconsistency weakens operator expectations and may normalize unnecessary command execution in a skill that should be advisory-only.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.