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Jd Interview Prep Helper

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This interview-prep skill is purpose-aligned and disclosed, with only a low-risk concern that its activation wording is broader than ideal.

Install this if you want an agent to use web research, read job-description files you provide, and save interview-prep guides. Avoid giving it sensitive personal files unless they are needed for the preparation task, and expect it may activate on broad interview-prep requests.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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 (3)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The activation description is broad enough to trigger on many generic interview-related requests, not just cases where the user has supplied a job description and company context. This can cause the agent to invoke external research tools unnecessarily, increasing the chance of oversharing user data, performing unintended web lookups, or bypassing a more appropriate narrower skill.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The 'When to Use' section uses ambiguous phrases like 'mentions interview preparation' and 'asks about what to study for a specific interview' without guardrails. In a tool-enabled skill that can perform web searches and read/write files, ambiguous routing broadens access to tools and can lead to unnecessary data handling or incorrect skill invocation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill description contains broad mandatory trigger language such as 'Make sure to use this skill whenever the user asks about interview prep' and similar phrases tied to common topics. This can cause over-invocation outside narrowly intended contexts, increasing the chance that the agent unnecessarily uses powerful tools like web-search, read, and write on user inputs that only loosely match the domain.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.