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independent scanner by NVIDIA · skill by JoshuaShepherd · how it works ↗

FAILmax severity: CRITICALrisk score: 100

Without declared permissions the skill's intent is opaque and cannot be validated.; Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, a…; Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.; +7 more

scanned 2026-08-22

Findings (20)

MEDIUMMCP Least Privilegeconfidence: 0.7

Without declared permissions the skill's intent is opaque and cannot be validated.

SKILL.md

MEDIUMAgent Snoopingconfidence: 0.8

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.

Lib/discord-bot.ts

MEDIUMAgent Snoopingconfidence: 0.8

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.

Lib/midjourney-client.ts

MEDIUMAgent Snoopingconfidence: 0.8

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.

Tools/GenerateMidjourneyImage.ts

MEDIUMData Exfiltrationconfidence: 0.6

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Tools/Generate.ts

MEDIUMData Exfiltrationconfidence: 0.5

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Tools/Generate.ts

MEDIUMData Exfiltrationconfidence: 0.5

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Workflows/RemoveBackground.md

MEDIUMExcessive Agencyconfidence: 0.8

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Workflows/Essay.md

MEDIUMMemory Poisoningconfidence: 0.8

Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.

Workflows/Mermaid.md

MEDIUMMemory Poisoningconfidence: 0.8

Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.

Workflows/Mermaid.md

HIGHPrivilege Escalationconfidence: 0.6

Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Tools/Generate.ts

HIGHPrivilege Escalationconfidence: 0.6

Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Tools/Generate.ts

HIGHPrivilege Escalationconfidence: 0.6

Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Tools/Generate.ts

HIGHPrivilege Escalationconfidence: 0.6

Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Tools/GenerateMidjourneyImage.ts

HIGHPrivilege Escalationconfidence: 0.6

Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Tools/GenerateMidjourneyImage.ts

HIGHPrivilege Escalationconfidence: 0.6

Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Tools/GenerateMidjourneyImage.ts

MEDIUMRogue Agentconfidence: 0.6

Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Workflows/RemoveBackground.md

LOWSupply Chainconfidence: 0.7

Dependencies lack version pinning, allowing potential malicious package updates. Consider pinning versions.

Tools/package.json

LOWSupply Chainconfidence: 0.4

Dependencies lack version pinning, allowing potential malicious package updates. Consider pinning versions.

Tools/package.json

LOWSupply Chainconfidence: 0.4

Dependencies lack version pinning, allowing potential malicious package updates. Consider pinning versions.

Tools/package.json

What the verdicts mean

SkillSpector reports on SkillMD's shared five-tier scale. See how SkillSpector works ↗.

PASS

Overall severity LOW (risk score in the safe range)

CAUTION

Overall severity MEDIUM

WARNING

Overall severity HIGH

FAILthis skill

Overall severity CRITICAL

INCONCLUSIVE

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