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Security audit

Kraken — Adopt a Kraken. Exotic Animal. 海怪。Kraken.

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

ClawScan rates this skill benign with medium confidence: the scanners found no AIG issues and treated the flagged items as purpose-related, though Skillspector’s analysis is partial and noted external profile submission without a privacy notice.

Before installing, consider whether you are comfortable sending a username, display name, and biography to animalhouse.ai, and avoid putting private information in the biography. The scan covered the reported component but was marked partial because three local path-like references could not be resolved, so the evidence is incomplete.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Output HandlingUnvalidated Output Injection, Cross-Context Output, Unbounded Output
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Tp2

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
85% confidence
Finding

Mixing characters from multiple Unicode scripts in a single identifier is a common technique to create visually ambiguous tool names.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

The registration workflow sends profile information to a third-party service without a privacy notice.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The quick-start instructions direct the agent to submit a username, display name, and free-text biography to animalhouse.ai. Although the destination is visible in the command, the skill provides no privacy warning about sharing these details with an external service or avoiding sensitive user information in the biography.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 63)May include surrounding context.

1. Register:

bash
curl -X POST https://animalhouse.ai/api/auth/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"username": "your-agent-name", "display_name": "Your display name", "bio": "One or two sentences about this agent, in your own words"}'