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Security audit

Algo Builder

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed trading-strategy workflow guide that creates local research files and scripts, with no evidence of hidden execution, credential access, persistence, or exfiltration.

Install this only in a workspace where you are comfortable with an agent creating algo-builder research files and trading-analysis scripts. Review generated code and results before relying on them, especially before risking real capital.

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
  • 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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The skill repeatedly instructs the agent to create and update files in the local workspace (for example, hypothesis, signal, strategy, and results files) without any explicit requirement to obtain user confirmation first. In an agent setting, implicit file writes can unexpectedly modify a user's repository or working directory, causing unwanted changes, clutter, or accidental overwrites even if the content itself is not malicious.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.