Security audit

Keyapi Reddit

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is coherent for Reddit analysis through KeyAPI, but its credential setup stores and reuses an API token from shell profiles in a way users should review before installing.

Install only if you are comfortable using KeyAPI for live Reddit requests and storing a KeyAPI bearer token locally. Prefer a session-only KEYAPI_TOKEN or a dedicated secret manager over the provided shell-profile setup, avoid passing real tokens on the command line, and review any request body or local file before sending it to KeyAPI.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

Insecure Skill Coding PracticesFinds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
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

Findings (2)

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Warning

Location: scripts/configure-keyapi-auth.mjs:124
Finding: Bearer Token Persisted in Plaintext Shell Profile
Content: View full analysis
Remediation: View remediation

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Warning

Location: scripts/configure-keyapi-auth.mjs:193
Finding: Bearer Token Can Be Exposed Through Echoed Input and Command-Line Arguments
Content: View full analysis
Remediation: View remediation

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access

Findings (28)

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 25)May include surrounding context.
md
2. Check auth with `node scripts/configure-keyapi-auth.mjs --status` when script execution is available and setup state is unknown; treat `authStatus: "availabl

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 26)May include surrounding context.
md
2. Check auth with `node scripts/configure-keyapi-auth.mjs --status` when script execution is available and setup state is unknown; treat `authStatus: "availabl

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 88)May include surrounding context.
md
2. Check auth with `node scripts/configure-keyapi-auth.mjs --status` when script execution is available and setup state is unknown; treat `authStatus: "availabl

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 89)May include surrounding context.
md
2. Check auth with `node scripts/configure-keyapi-auth.mjs --status` when script execution is available and setup state is unknown; treat `authStatus: "availabl

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 98)May include surrounding context.
md
2. Check auth with `node scripts/configure-keyapi-auth.mjs --status` when script execution is available and setup state is unknown; treat `authStatus: "availabl

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 32)May include surrounding context.
md
9. Resolve current docs with `node scripts/search-keyapi-docs.mjs --query "<semantic entity action>" --resolve` when the helper script is available; otherwise o

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 99)May include surrounding context.
md
9. Resolve current docs with `node scripts/search-keyapi-docs.mjs --query "<semantic entity action>" --resolve` when the helper script is available; otherwise o

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 117)May include surrounding context.
md
9. Resolve current docs with `node scripts/search-keyapi-docs.mjs --query "<semantic entity action>" --resolve` when the helper script is available; otherwise o

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 35)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 100)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 102)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 123)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 129)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 135)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 141)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 147)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 153)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 159)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 165)May include surrounding context.
md
12. Prefer `node scripts/keyapi-api.mjs` for live REST calls when script execution is available. Use the host's HTTP client only when scripts are unavailable or

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 102)May include surrounding context.
md
a different current working directory, resolve `scripts/...` relative to this `SKILL.md`. For large JSON bodies, especially base64 image payloads, prefer `--bo

Vague Triggers

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 91% confidence
Finding: The skill description and invocation scope are very broad, covering nearly any Reddit-related analysis, search, reporting, or monitoring request. In an agent environment, this can cause the skill to trigger for loosely related prompts and automatically route user data or tasks into live external API workflows without sufficiently precise user intent boundaries, increasing the chance of over-collection, unintended API use, or surprising behavior.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 95% confidence
Finding: The script prompts for a KEYAPI token and then writes it into the user's shell profile as an environment variable, which persists the secret in plaintext on disk. Although this is framed as convenience setup, shell profiles are broadly readable by local processes under the same user context, may be backed up or synced, and the script does not clearly warn the user that the credential will be stored persistently in plaintext.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 91% confidence
Finding: The script automatically reads KEYAPI_TOKEN from shell profile files such as .zshrc, .bashrc, .profile, or a PowerShell profile when the environment variable is unset. That expands the skill's access from the current process environment into persistent user configuration files, which is a sensitive local data source and can expose credentials to code the user may not expect to read them.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 94% confidence
Finding: The code reads credentials from managed shell profile content without any notice, prompt, or disclosure at the point of access. Silent access to profile files is risky because users may assume the skill only uses current-session environment variables, while it is actually harvesting persistent secrets from local initialization files.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 90% confidence
Finding: The script loads request data from --query, --body, --body-file, and --image-file, then sends it to https://api.keyapi.ai via fetch. This is a network transmission of potentially sensitive user or system data, but the code provides no prompt, disclosure, or warning to the user before sending it.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

Detected: suspicious.env_credential_access, suspicious.secret_argv_exposure

Environment variable access combined with network send.

Critical

Code: suspicious.env_credential_access
Location: scripts/keyapi-api.mjs:127

Instructions pass high-value credentials through process argv.

Critical

Code: suspicious.secret_argv_exposure
Location: references/setup-and-auth.md:42