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Prompt Engineering

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is an instruction-only prompt engineering guide with one safety-sensitive troubleshooting example, but it does not request credentials, run code, persist data, or perform hidden actions.

Reasonable to install as a prompt-engineering reference. Review the troubleshooting section before relying on it, and avoid using the skill to reframe refused requests in ways that seek harmful or manipulative guidance.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
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 (2)

Vague Triggers

Low
Confidence
78% confidence
Finding
The generic call to 'Try it out - Share your prompt or describe your need' is broad and could encourage use of the skill for loosely related or ordinary requests without clear boundaries. In a prompt-engineering skill, this can cause over-invocation or misrouting, where the agent applies the skill outside its intended scope, reducing reliability and potentially exposing users to inappropriate prompt-design guidance in unrelated contexts.

Ssd 1

Medium
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
The guide explicitly recommends reframing a refused harmful request about manipulating people into a fictional/novel-writing context to obtain the same underlying guidance. This can help users bypass safety safeguards by laundering intent through roleplay or literary framing, increasing the chance of generating actionable manipulative or coercive content.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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