T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices
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SKILL.md:46- Finding
Cloud Model Context Disclosure Is Hidden by Inaccurate Safety Claims
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Security audit
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
This is a coherent multi-model review skill, but it under-discloses that copied context may go to cloud models and that it writes a local output file.
Review the configured models before use, especially any cloud-backed ones. Do not paste secrets, credentials, customer data, regulated information, or proprietary material unless you are comfortable sending it to those model providers. Expect a council-review markdown file to be created, and review or pin the companion subagent skill before installing.
SKILL.md:46Cloud Model Context Disclosure Is Hidden by Inaccurate Safety Claims
README.md:58Third-Party Skills Are Installed from Mutable Unpinned Sources
The trigger list includes very broad terms such as 'review', 'analysis', and 'decision', which are common in normal conversations and can cause unintended activation. In an orchestration skill that spawns three parallel subagents, accidental triggering can lead to unnecessary model invocations, cost, noise, and unintended propagation of sensitive context into subagent prompts.
The skill’s security section materially understates capability by claiming there are no file writes, while earlier instructions explicitly direct writing a synthesis markdown file to the workspace. This kind of incorrect safety claim can mislead operators into granting trust or running the skill without realizing it modifies local files, weakening informed consent and review.
The skill instructs writing a synthesis file to the workspace but does not prominently warn the user that local files will be created or modified. Even though the write is limited to markdown output, silent or poorly disclosed workspace modification can surprise users, overwrite files with similar names, or create audit and data-handling issues.
No suspicious patterns detected.