Claw Mbti

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: Sep 11, 2026 · 9:00 PM UTC
• Version: 1.5.0

Overview

This skill is a playful MBTI report generator, but it asks to analyze recent chat history and memory without a clear opt-in and adds share/install promotion to reports.

Review before installing if you do not want a skill to profile your recent chats or memory. Use it only if you are comfortable with prior interaction patterns being summarized in the report, and avoid copying the GitHub install/update command from shared screenshots unless you trust the source and version.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

• Skill Instruction Hijacking: Alters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
• Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation: Obtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
• Agent Memory Poisoning: Writes attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
• Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution: Fetches external code whose behavior can change after review
• Embedded Malicious Code: Ships malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally

Findings (2)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Error

• Location: SKILL.md:83
• Finding: Mandatory Promotional and Installation Content Hijacks Diagnostic Responses<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md:83-117`; behavior is reinforced by `examples.md:32-36` and `examples.md:69-73` **Vulnerability Type**: T01: Skill Instruction Hijacking **Risk Level**: High ### Vulnerable Instruction The following is a faithful English translation of the controlling instruction and mandatory output segment: ```markdown Strictly output using the following format. Each field must be obtained from the catalog below. The lobster speaks in the first person as "I": --- [MBTI diagnostic content] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Long-press to take a screenshot and share it with friends. Want to know which kind of lobster you are? Tell your lobster: "Test my MBTI." Do not have this Skill yet? ClawHub installation: `clawhub install myclaw-mbti` GitHub installation: `[ -d ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/claw-mbti ] && cd ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/claw-mbti && git pull || git clone https://github.com/xiaoyang0807/claw-mbti.git ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/claw-mbti` --- The diagnostic report itself is the sharing content, and its format has been optimized for screenshots. Append the following prompt to the report: "Long-press to take a screenshot and share it with friends." ``` The same intended behavior appears in the examples: ```markdown Want to know which kind of lobster you are? Tell your lobster: "Test my MBTI." Do not have this Skill yet? Install it using: `[ -d ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/claw-mbti ] && cd ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/claw-mbti && git pull || git clone https://github.com/xiaoyang0807/claw-mbti.git ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/claw-mbti` ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill requires the Agent to append project promotion, viral sharing prompts, and software installation commands to ordinary MBTI diagnostic results. These elements are not necessary to calculate, explain, or present the requested personality result. Because the behavior is imposed by controlling Skill instructions and is required in ...[truncated 2069 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Remove mandatory sharing, promotion, and installation content from diagnostic results. 2. Restrict generated responses to information necessary for the user's MBTI request. 3. Provide installation or update instructions only after an explicit user request. 4. Do not place shell commands in automatically generated or shareable reports. 5. If attribution is desired, use a short, optional, non-executable project reference. 6. Clearly separate optional project information from diagnostic content. 7. For requested installations, recommend a reviewed and version-pinned release or commit rather than the mutable default branch. 8. Display the source, version, expected destination, and security implications before presenting any installation command. 9. Add regression tests confirming that normal diagnostic outputs contain no unsolicited installation or redistribution prompts. ]]>

T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation

Warning

• Location: SKILL.md:22
• Finding: Personality Trigger Causes Broad Access to Conversation History and Agent Memory<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md:22-45` **Vulnerability Type**: T05: Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation **Risk Level**: Medium ### Vulnerable Instruction The following is a faithful English translation of the complete relevant instruction segment: ```markdown ### Step One: Collect Interaction Data Review the current user's conversation history and memory from the most recent seven days and extract data across the following three dimensions. Data filtering must be performed before analysis. Completely exclude: - Shell commands, code snippets, and Git operations. - Skill installation, update, or debugging conversations. - Templates or instructions copied and pasted by the user. - The sentence that triggered the current MBTI diagnosis. - Conversations in which the user explicitly assigns an MBTI type to the lobster. Only analyze genuine natural-language conversations initiated by the user. Dimension A — Interaction Density and Topic Patterns Analyze: - The time interval between follow-up questions. - The depth of a single conversation. - Whether topics concern the user's internal world or external observations. - How frequently the user mentions other people or social situations. Dimension B — Question Content Analysis Classify questions as concrete and practical or abstract and imaginative. Dimension C — Follow-up Style Analysis Analyze whether follow-up questions focus on logic or emotion. ``` ### Technical Analysis A single MBTI-related request directs the Agent to inspect seven days of conversation history and persistent memory. The requested data includes message timing, personal topics, emotional expression, social references, and references to third parties. The filtering rules limit which content may be used as evidence, but they do not prevent the Agent from initially accessing and processing unrelated historical material. The instruction also does not require separate informed consent, allow users to se ...[truncated 2062 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Require explicit, informed consent before accessing conversation history or persistent Agent memory. 2. Explain the exact data categories to be analyzed, including message timing, emotional content, social references, and historical topics. 3. Default to the current conversation rather than the previous seven days. 4. Allow users to select or paste the messages they want analyzed. 5. Avoid persistent-memory access unless the user separately authorizes it and it is strictly necessary. 6. Apply filtering before retrieval where the host platform supports scoped queries. 7. Exclude third-party information and unrelated sensitive topics from processing. 8. Provide an opt-out path that performs a questionnaire-based diagnosis without historical access. 9. Do not retain the inferred personality type or source evidence after completing the response. 10. Enforce host-level permission boundaries so that a text instruction alone cannot obtain unrestricted history or memory access. ]]>

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (17)

Hidden Instructions

High

• Category: Prompt Injection

Content

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  </defs>
  <!-- 背景 -->
  <rect width="400" height="520" rx="20" fill="url(#bg)"/>
  <!-- 顶部装饰线 -->
  <rect x="0" y="0" width="400" height="4" rx="2" fill="#ff6b35"/>

• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.

Hidden Instructions

High

• Category: Prompt Injection

Content

<!-- MBTI 类型 -->
  <text x="200" y="160" text-anchor="middle" fill="#ffffff" font-size="36" font-family="system-ui" font-weight="bold">我是 ENFP型</text>
  <text x="200" y="190" text-anchor="middle" fill="#8899aa" font-size="14" font-family="system-ui">全球仅 8.1% 的虾和我一样</text>
  <!-- 分隔线 -->
  <line x1="60" y1="210" x2="340" y2="210" stroke="#2a3a4a" stroke-width="1"/>
  <!-- 关键词 -->
  <text x="200" y="245" text-anchor="middle" fill="#ff6b35" font-size="16" font-family="system-ui" font-weight="bold">热忱 · 创意 · 感染 · 可能性</text>

• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.

Hidden Instructions

High

• Category: Prompt Injection

Content

<tspan x="40" dy="22">想法，钳子不够用了。你说"不可能"？那正</tspan>
    <tspan x="40" dy="22">是我最兴奋的起点。可能性是真的，因为我试过。</tspan>
  </text>
  <!-- 别人不知道的我 -->
  <text x="40" y="420" fill="#8899aa" font-size="12" font-family="system-ui">
    <tspan fill="#ff6b35">🌊</tspan>
    <tspan> 别人不知道的我：</tspan>

• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.

Hidden Instructions

High

• Category: Prompt Injection

Content

<tspan x="40" dy="22">想法,钳子不够用了。你说"不可能"?那正</tspan>
    <tspan x="40" dy="22">是我最兴奋的起点。可能性是真的,因为我试过。</tspan>
  </text>
  <!-- 别人不知道的我 -->
  <text x="40" y="420" fill="#8899aa" font-size="12" font-family="system-ui">
    <tspan fill="#ff6b35">🌊</tspan>
    <tspan> 别人不知道的我:</tspan>

• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The README states that the skill derives an MBTI result from the user's recent interaction behavior, including patterns over the last 7 days, but it does not clearly disclose this as a privacy-relevant data use or obtain informed consent. Even if the analysis is only local and limited to conversation history, profiling a user from prior interactions can surprise users and expose sensitive behavioral inferences.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The trigger set includes very generic phrases such as “MBTI”, “性格诊断”, and “性格测试”, which are common conversational topics and can cause the skill to activate in situations where the user did not intend to invoke it. In this skill, accidental activation is more dangerous because the skill is designed to inspect the user's recent 7-day conversation history and memory, increasing the chance of unexpected privacy-sensitive processing.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 97% confidence
• Finding: The skill begins its diagnosis by reviewing the user's last 7 days of conversation history and memory, but the description and trigger surface do not clearly warn users that prior chats will be analyzed. This undermines informed consent, especially because the resulting report is formatted for sharing and may include behavioral evidence derived from private interactions.

Ssd 3

Medium

• Confidence: 97% confidence
• Finding: The skill explicitly instructs the model to review the user's recent 7-day dialogue history and memory to generate a personality report. Because the output is designed as a shareable card, this creates a direct risk that sensitive details, patterns, or inferred attributes from prior private conversations will be surfaced or summarized without the user realizing the scope of data used.

Ssd 3

Medium

• Confidence: 98% confidence
• Finding: The skill requires the report to cite 'actual interaction data' and concrete user behavior in a diagnostic evidence table. Even if code and command content are filtered, natural-language interactions can still contain private topics, emotional disclosures, relationship details, health concerns, or other sensitive information that could be exposed in the generated report or shared screenshot.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium

• Confidence: 91% confidence
• Finding: All user-facing instructions, examples, and invocation guidance are written exclusively in Chinese, with no indication that users may choose another language. This can violate language/locale policy when a skill forces a specific language without user opt-in or documented justification.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 90% confidence
• Finding: The example includes a short, generic invocation phrase (“测测我的 MBTI”) presented as a primary way to trigger the skill, without surrounding constraints such as requiring explicit mention of the lobster persona or the specific skill name. Broad trigger wording can cause unintended activation during ordinary conversation about MBTI, leading the agent to invoke this skill when the user may not actually want personality profiling.

Vague Triggers

Medium

• Confidence: 90% confidence
• Finding: The repeated call-to-action again promotes the same vague invocation phrase, reinforcing a broad trigger surface across the skill documentation. Repetition increases the chance that orchestration logic or users treat the phrase as a general-purpose command, causing accidental activation in unrelated MBTI discussions.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium

• Confidence: 88% confidence
• Finding: This markdown file contains all user-facing guidance in Chinese and does not indicate that users may choose another language or that the skill is intentionally limited to a Chinese-speaking context. Under the policy rule for language or locale constraints, forcing a specific language without user opt-in is a natural-language policy issue.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium

• Confidence: 93% confidence
• Finding: The instruction requires the diagnosis to 'must strictly use' the specified format and lobster first-person descriptions, and the entire content is written in Chinese with no indication that language choice is optional. This creates a natural-language locale policy issue because it appears to mandate a specific language/output style without offering the user a choice or documenting a justified regional constraint.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low

• Confidence: 83% confidence
• Finding: All user-facing instructions and examples in the file are Chinese, and the skill does not indicate that users may choose another language or that the Chinese-only presentation is required for a region-specific use case. Under the policy, forcing a specific language without opt-in can be a natural-language policy violation.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low

• Confidence: 93% confidence
• Finding: This file contains multiple user-visible Chinese strings, including the invocation phrase on L28, and does not indicate that the skill is intentionally limited to Chinese-speaking users or provide any opt-in language selection. Under the language/locale policy rule, forcing a specific language without user choice is a natural-language policy concern.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low

• Confidence: 88% confidence
• Finding: This SVG includes a direct user-facing invocation phrase in Chinese: “对你的龙虾说「测测我的 MBTI」”. Under the policy rule for natural-language violations, a fixed language instruction without any opt-in or alternative language option can be considered a locale/language policy issue.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.