Paper Scout

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: May 29, 2026 at 8:16 PM UTC
• Version:
  0.1.0

Overview

This skill is a coherent academic paper-search helper that uses public research sources and saves a local Markdown digest, with no evidence of hidden code or unsafe behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable with the agent searching public academic websites and saving a dated Markdown report on your Desktop. Consider changing the output path or asking before write if your Desktop is shared, synced, or contains sensitive research context.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Low

• Confidence: 92% confidence
• Finding: The skill explicitly states that it writes a Markdown report to ~/Desktop, but it does not clearly warn the user that executing the skill will create a local file. This is a real but low-severity transparency/safety issue: unexpected filesystem writes can surprise users, overwrite existing content, or expose sensitive research topics to other local users or synced desktop services.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.