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Security audit

Trading Journal

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a straightforward trading journal skill that stores trade notes locally and does not include code, network calls, credential access, or hidden execution.

Install only if you are comfortable keeping trade history, strategy notes, PnL, and emotion tags in a local JSON file. Consider file permissions, backups, and deletion practices for that journal, especially on shared machines or synced folders.

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
  • 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
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The manifest description says to use the skill when 'recording a new trade, reviewing performance, running a weekly debrief, or updating the trading strategy based on results.' These activation descriptions are broad natural-language situations rather than specific trigger phrases or constrained contexts, which could cause unintended invocation in ordinary discussion about trading workflows.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs persistent storage of sensitive behavioral and financial trading data in a local file path without warning the user about retention, sensitivity, or access implications. This can expose trade history, strategy details, emotions, and performance data to unintended local users, backups, or other tools operating in the same workspace.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.