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Security audit

hotcoin-ai-skill

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a read-only Hotcoin market-data and research skill that uses public exchange endpoints and does not request credentials, trading authority, persistence, or local file access.

Install only if you are comfortable letting the agent contact Hotcoin public API and Learn pages for market and research data. Do not provide exchange API keys or trading permissions for this skill, and treat exchange-provided token research as informational rather than independent financial advice.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
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 (4)

Skill Enumeration

Medium
Category
Agent Snooping
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.

Content

Scanner excerpt · README.md (reported line 25)May include surrounding context.

Point your AI Agent to the raw SKILL.md URL:

text
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xiaoyu/hotcoin-ai-skill/main/SKILL.md

Option 2: Clone locally

Skill Enumeration

Medium
Category
Agent Snooping
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.

Content

Scanner excerpt · README.md (reported line 88)May include surrounding context.

Point your AI Agent to the raw SKILL.md URL:

text
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xiaoyu/hotcoin-ai-skill/main/SKILL.md

Option 2: Clone locally

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

Line L256 directs users to a Chinese-language path (/zh_CN/learn/index/) as the source for the latest reports, which effectively imposes a specific locale in the skill's natural-language guidance. The file does not mention alternative locales or let the user choose a preferred language, so this is a locale-policy concern.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

This JSON manifest includes a hotcoin_learn link under a zh_CN locale path, which implies a language-specific resource is being prescribed. Because there is no alternate locale or indication of user language selection in the file, this can violate the policy against forcing a specific language without user opt-in.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.