Self Improving Agent 3.0.16

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill keeps local learning notes and optional reminders; its persistence risks are disclosed and aligned with its purpose.

Install this only if you want persistent local learning logs. Keep entries minimal and redacted, do not store secrets or raw command output, prefer project-local .learnings when possible, and review anything before promoting it into prompt or workspace memory files. Enable the command-output error detector only in trusted workspaces.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • 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
Findings (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
82% confidence
Finding
The top-level usage guidance says to use the skill for very common situations like failures, corrections, outdated knowledge, and better approaches, which are frequent in ordinary conversations. Over-broad invocation criteria can cause the skill to activate excessively, leading to unnecessary persistence, log growth, and repeated prompts to write project files even when the user did not ask for memory or state changes.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
The detection triggers rely on everyday phrases such as 'Actually...' or 'Can you also...' that commonly appear in normal chat. In an agent system, these broad heuristics can spur automatic logging of benign user speech into persistent files, creating privacy, data-retention, and unwanted statefulness risks without meaningful user intent to store that information.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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