task-observer
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Aug 27, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPERSISTENCECOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONMETADATA_POISONING
Full Analysis
- [PERSISTENCE]: The skill implements a mechanism for setting up autonomous background tasks to perform periodic audits and updates.
- Evidence: The
references/weekly-review.mdfile contains instructions for the agent to register aweekly-skill-reviewtask using system schedulers such ascron,create-shortcut, orset_scheduled_task. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill makes extensive use of shell utilities to manage its internal logging system and handle file updates across different environments.
- Evidence:
SKILL.mdandreferences/weekly-review.mdutilize commands includinggrep,sed,awk,chmod,cp, anddiffto number observations, reformat log files, and adjust file permissions for staged updates. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill operates by ingesting and processing unstructured session data, user feedback, and deliverables to generate rules for other skills, creating a potential vector for indirect injection.
- Ingestion points: The skill reads session history, user-provided handoff documents, and the
skill-observations/log.mdfile as described inSKILL.mdandreferences/environments.md. - Boundary markers: The skill uses a structured Markdown format for logs but does not enforce technical escaping or delimiting of the content processed from external inputs.
- Capability inventory: The skill is capable of writing new skill files, modifying existing instructions, and executing shell commands through the agent.
- Sanitization: There are instructions for the agent to manually 'strip specifics' from observations in
references/skill-authoring.md, but no automated sanitization is present. - [METADATA_POISONING]: The skill's metadata includes imperative directives designed to override the agent's standard skill invocation logic and modify the local environment's configuration.
- Evidence: The
descriptionfield inSKILL.mdcontains an 'IMPORTANT' instruction requiring the skill to be invoked at the start of every session and directs the agent to add activation instructions to the project'sCLAUDE.mdfile.
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