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Security audit

options-payoff-calculator

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill’s code matches its disclosed purpose: fetching market data and creating an offline options payoff chart.

Use a SentiSense API key and expect the provider to receive your requested ticker and client identifier; supplying an agent name is optional. Choose a new output filename to avoid overwriting an existing file. Treat premiums as delayed-data model estimates, not executable quotes. All bundled files were inspected, but the live API and separate onboarding skill were not tested or reviewed.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • 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 (4)

Incomplete referenced artifact analysis

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 79)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/prepare_data.mjs TSLA > /tmp/tsla.json

Incomplete referenced artifact analysis

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 96)May include surrounding context.

md
node scripts/prepare_data.mjs TSLA --out payoff_TSLA.html

Skill declares no tool scope ('permissions' or 'allowed-tools') but code capabilities were detected: env, network.

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Without declared permissions the skill's intent is opaque and cannot be validated.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Behavior Manipulation

Medium
Category
Prompt Injection
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

Subtle instructions detected that may alter agent decision-making or introduce hidden biases.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 163)May include surrounding context.

md
- Never present max profit as an expectation or a target. It is the top of a diagram, reached only at expiry and only in one scenario.
- Do not attach probabilities to outcomes. The artifact deliberately shows the expected move band instead of a chance-of-profit number, because a single percentage invites more confidence than an end-of-day volatility reading can support.
- On a preview response, say the 60 and 90 day expiries are missing because the free monthly dossier allowance is spent, rather than presenting a one-expiry picker as the whole picture.
- When the next report is unknown because the free calendar covers one week, say exactly that. Never tell the user nothing is scheduled, and say a report inside the chosen expiry cannot be ruled out.

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