Thinking
Audited by Socket on Feb 28, 2026
6 alerts found:
Securityx6The Council skill is largely consistent with its stated purpose (multi-agent debate with customizable local overrides). The primary security concern is the mandatory, immediate execution of a backgrounded curl POST to a local endpoint (http://localhost:8888/notify) before any other action. This pattern forces an autonomously executed side effect without per-invocation consent and hides output, which is unexpected for a debate orchestration skill and increases risk (it could trigger or be abused by a malicious local service). Loading local customization files is reasonable but increases attack surface if those files are untrusted. There are no signs of remote exfiltration, downloads, or obfuscated/malicious payloads in the provided content. Overall risk is moderate: treat the mandatory curl step as a risky design decision — require explicit user confirmation or make notifications optional/controlled, and validate or sandbox any local customization files before applying.
Overall, the RedTeam skill fragment is coherently aligned with its stated adversarial analysis purpose. Its footprint is largely benign from a supply-chain security perspective: it relies on local, authenticated IPC (localhost) for coordination and on local configuration/workflow markdowns. There is no evidence of credential handling, exfiltration, external downloads, or autonomous real-world actions. The only mild concern is the mandatory localhost notification endpoint, which could pose risk if the local listener is compromised or if the customization override mechanism introduces untrusted behavior. In a typical developer workflow, this pattern is acceptable for a testing/validation tool, but ensure that the localhost listener is secured and that customization files are from trusted sources. Overall securityRisk is low to medium (0.25–0.5) given the current footprint, with malware likelihood near zero.
This is primarily a benign workflow skill that documents a scientific problem-solving process and references local customization and internal workflows. The main security concerns are procedural: the skill mandates executing a local curl POST immediately upon invocation and encourages invoking other skills (transitive trust). Because the curl target is localhost rather than an external third-party domain, the immediate risk of remote exfiltration is low, but the unconditional shell/network action and the strong autonomy directive raise moderate concerns about misuse or unexpected interactions with local services. Recommend: remove or make the notification optional/conditional (ask user/agent for permission), document the purpose of the localhost endpoint, and avoid requiring unconditional shell execution. No clear signs of malware or credential harvesting are present in the provided fragment.
This skill is a documentation/instruction skill for reasoning by first principles. It does not contain remote downloads, obfuscated code, credential harvesting routines, or external network endpoints. The primary security concern is that it mandates an unconditional HTTP POST to a localhost service (http://localhost:8888/notify) before any other action. While localhost targets are not external by default, forcing a network action to a local port without checking or confirming the presence/trustworthiness of the local service is a non-standard side effect that could be abused if the user runs an untrusted or compromised daemon on that port. The other noteworthy behavior is loading user-supplied customization files from a home-directory path, which is a standard customization mechanism but could change behavior if those files are malicious. Overall, the code appears benign in intent but has moderate supply-chain/operational risk due to the mandatory local notification and configurable local overrides. Recommend removing the unconditional network call or making it optional/confirmable, validating and sandboxing customization file content, and documenting the expected local notification service to mitigate risk.
The fragment presents a coherent, non-malicious orchestration scaffold for a World Threat Model Harness, with normal-looking local storage usage and a single local notification network call. The only notable risk is the hardcoded local notification endpoint, which assumes a trustworthy local notifier service and could be abused if misconfigured or if the notifier is compromised. Given the lack of external data exfiltration, credentials, or download/execution behavior, the overall risk is low to moderate and primarily centers on local inter-process communication trust rather than remote supply-chain abuse.
This BeCreative skill is primarily a benign creative workflow definition, but it contains concerning operational directives: it requires an unconditional, silenced, background HTTP POST to localhost before any other action, and it loads arbitrary user customizations from a home-directory path that can override behavior. The localhost curl is not a direct external exfiltration indicator but the forced side-effect and concealment pattern increases risk. Overall: no evidence of active malware in the fragment (no downloads from remote domains, no hardcoded secrets, no code-execution payloads), but the mandatory hidden network call and unconstrained customization override are suspicious and elevate supply-chain risk. Recommend removing or gating the automatic curl call (require user consent or make it optional/visible), restrict and validate customization files before applying overrides, and avoid running background-suppressed commands that execute before user-visible actions.