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Security audit

Quantitative Research

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a finance research guidance package with broad routing terms, but it does not request credentials, persistence, trade execution, or hidden system access.

Install only if you want quantitative finance research assistance. Treat its strategy code and thresholds as educational examples, verify any market data and assumptions independently, and do not rely on it as financial advice or as authority to trade without explicit user-controlled review.

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 (5)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The trigger description is overly broad and ambiguous, causing the skill to activate for a wide range of finance-related prompts without clear boundaries. In an agent system, this can misroute user requests to a high-authority domain skill, increasing the chance of inappropriate guidance, overreach beyond intended scope, or unintended instruction precedence over safer/more relevant skills.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The detection rule alpha|signal|predict|edge is overly broad for an auto-invocation mechanism because terms like 'signal', 'predict', and especially 'edge' appear in many unrelated technical and general contexts. This can cause the skill to trigger unexpectedly, routing user requests into a powerful quant-research workflow when the user did not intend it.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The detection pattern factor|exposure|beta|Fama.*French|Barra contains generic terms like 'factor', 'exposure', and 'beta' that are common across software, statistics, science, and product discussions. In a skill router, this increases the chance of accidental invocation and misclassification of unrelated requests.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The detection rule regime|market.*state|trend.*ranging|volatility.*cluster includes broad terms like 'regime' and potentially generic phrasing around trends and volatility. These words are used in many non-financial domains, so the skill may activate on unrelated discussions about systems, policies, ML, or weather-like volatility concepts.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The anti-pattern triggers include very generic words like download, historical, future, position, trade, execute, recent, and similar terms that commonly appear in ordinary coding and research conversations. If these are used for skill behavior, warning generation, or routing, they can produce noisy matches and unintended activations that degrade trust and can redirect workflows incorrectly.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.