Back to skill

Security audit

Format Book

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to do what it claims: format a user-provided manuscript into paperback and Kindle files, with only ordinary local file-output risk.

Install only if you are comfortable with the agent creating and running local typesetting commands. Use it from a dedicated manuscript folder, check whether the proposed output filenames already exist, and confirm python3, pandoc, and any needed PDF/EPUB tooling are installed.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
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
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly instructs the agent to write generated files into the user's current working directory without any warning, confirmation, or overwrite safeguards. While file output is expected for a formatting skill, directing writes into an unspecified working directory can cause accidental overwrites, clutter sensitive directories, or place files in locations the user did not intend.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

View on VirusTotal