adcp-scorecard
Fail
Audited by Snyk on Aug 4, 2026
Risk Level: HIGH
Full Analysis
HIGH W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
- Insecure credential handling detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill instructs the agent to ask for and reuse a bearer token and to embed it into per-command environment prefixes (ADCP_AUTH_TOKEN= npx …), which requires the LLM to accept and output the secret verbatim in generated commands.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill explicitly instructs runtime fetching/execution of remote packages and repository-installed skills — e.g. installing/calling the official buyer SDK/skills (https://github.com/adcontextprotocol/adcp/tree/main/skills, https://github.com/adcontextprotocol/adcp) and the @adcp/sdk package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/@adcp/sdk via npx), so remote code would be fetched and executed during pilot runs.
MEDIUM W009: Direct money access capability detected (payment gateways, crypto, banking).
- Direct money access detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill explicitly supports running "media-buy" operations and making direct protocol calls that activate buys/spend (it names the official AdCP buyer skills, "adcp-media-buy" for discovery/buy/delivery tests, and direct invocation via "npx @adcp/sdk ..."). It requires inputs like "maximum permitted financial exposure" and describes "spend-affecting operations" with mandatory approval gates, which indicates the skill's primary purpose includes creating financial commitments (ad spend). These are specific, protocol-level mechanisms to execute purchases, not generic automation or generic API callers, so this grants direct financial execution capability.
Issues (3)
W007
HIGHInsecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
W009
MEDIUMDirect money access capability detected (payment gateways, crypto, banking).
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