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Ceo Advisor 2

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This CEO advisory skill provides disclosed strategic, financial, board, investor, and leadership guidance without hidden execution, persistence, or data exfiltration behavior.

Install only if you want Codex to assist with CEO-level strategic planning and business decision support. Avoid placing confidential company data in company-context.md unless you are comfortable having the assistant read it for this skill's advice, and treat budget, staffing, fundraising, legal, and investor-relations outputs as decision support rather than automatic approvals.

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 (3)

Tp4

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The declared description presents the skill as broad executive leadership and strategic guidance, including organizational development, stakeholder management, board presentations, investor updates, and culture/leadership support. However, the supplied code is narrowly focused on quantitative financial scenario analysis. Its primary function is to process base-case financial inputs and scenarios, project revenues/costs/cash flow over time, and compute financial metrics and recommendations. It does not implement organizational development, stakeholder management, board presentation preparation, investor communications, or general executive advisory behavior. While financial scenario planning can support strategy, the actual code's concrete capability is materially different and much narrower than the declared executive-leadership description, so this is a mismatch.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The description says to use the skill for broad situations like planning strategy and making executive decisions, and also when the user mentions general terms such as strategy or leadership. These are common business topics that could appear in many conversations, but the file does not provide exclusion conditions or narrower trigger constraints to distinguish when this skill should or should not activate.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
85% 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 · references/executive_decision_framework.md (reported line 86)May include surrounding context.

Budget Decision Tree

text
Is it required for operations?
├─ Yes → Essential (Auto-approve if <$X)
└─ No → Does it drive growth?
    ├─ Yes → What's the ROI?
    │   ├─ >30% → Strategic (Approve)

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.