registry / AI-agent capability abuse / agentic-awesome-skills / 16.4.0

agentic-awesome-skills@16.4.0

AAS Core: complete local skill discovery, agent-owned selection, stack validation, and planning, backed by 2,097+ agentic skills.

AI Security Review

scanned 1mo ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

No install lifecycle hook, self-dependency chain, credential harvesting, or unsolicited exfiltration was found. The explicit installer mutates agent skill directories and ships an opaque artifact, so warning is appropriate.

Static reason

High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Trigger

The user runs the package installer command without --dry-run.

Impact

Selected or default catalog content can alter the capabilities available to local AI-agent tools; existing managed entries may be replaced.

Mechanism

User-invoked remote skill installation into agent configuration directories.

AI rationale

Evidence

tools/bin/install.jsskills/theme-factory/theme-showcase.pdf~/.agents/skills~/.cursor/skills~/.claude/skills~/.gemini/skills~/.codex/skills.antigravity-install-manifest.json

Network endpoints3

github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.gitregistry.npmjs.orgapi.apify.com

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Suspicious at 82.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.

Evidence for warning

The package exposes a user-invoked installer command.
That installer clones a remote repository before applying selected skills.
It can replace an existing repository-based agent skills directory after making a backup.
The package includes an opaque PDF artifact that cannot be fully assessed as source code.
An example sends an explicitly supplied Apify token to the Apify API when the example is run.

Evidence against

package.json contains no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook.
The installer runs only when its command-line entry point is invoked.
The Hugging Face example sends its optional token only to huggingface.co.
The Fedora script is an isolated non-destructive test runner.
The bundled AJV file is a JSON schema, not executable payload code.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsEvalFilesystemNetworkShell

Source & flagged code

12 flagged

skills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.mdView file

165patternName = stripe_test_secret severity = high line = 165

High

High Secret

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

skills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.mdView on unpkg · L165

165patternName = stripe_test_secret severity = high line = 165

High

Secret Pattern

Stripe test secret key in skills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.md

skills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.mdView on unpkg · L165

node_modules/ajv/dist/compile/jtd/serialize.jsView file

49sourceCode = `${gen.scopeRefs(names_1.default.scope)}return ${serializeFuncCode}`; L50: const makeSerialize = new Function(`${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode); L51: const serialize = makeSerialize(this.scope.get());

Low

Eval

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

node_modules/ajv/dist/compile/jtd/serialize.jsView on unpkg · L49

tools/bin/aas.jsView file

3L4: const { main } = require("../lib/aas-v1/cli/main"); L5:

Medium

Dynamic Require

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

tools/bin/aas.jsView on unpkg · L3

skills/apify-content-analytics/reference/scripts/run_actor.jsView file

98const apiActorId = actorId.replace('/', '~'); L99: const url = `https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/${apiActorId}/runs?token=${encodeURIComponent(token)}`; L100: ... L102: try { L103: data = JSON.parse(inputJson); L104: } catch (e) { ... L114: }, L115: body: JSON.stringify(data), L116: }); ... L321: // Check for APIFY_TOKEN L322: const token = process.env.APIFY_TOKEN; L323: if (!token) {

Critical

Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

skills/apify-content-analytics/reference/scripts/run_actor.jsView on unpkg · L98

skills/huggingface-tool-builder/references/baseline_hf_api.tsxView file

39L40: const token = process.env.HF_TOKEN; L41: const headers: Record<string, string> = token ... L44: L45: const url = `https://huggingface.co/api/models?limit=${limit}`; L46: ... L54: L55: const text = await res.text(); L56: process.stdout.write(text); L57: })();

High

Credential Exfiltration

Source combines credential-like environment material and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

skills/huggingface-tool-builder/references/baseline_hf_api.tsxView on unpkg · L39

skills/gemini-deep-research/scripts/research.pyView file

•path = skills/gemini-deep-research/scripts/research.py kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 24204 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Ships Build Helper

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

skills/gemini-deep-research/scripts/research.pyView on unpkg

skills/web-artifacts-builder/scripts/shadcn-components.tar.gzView file

•path = skills/web-artifacts-builder/scripts/shadcn-components.tar.gz kind = compressed_blob sizeBytes = 19967 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Ships Compressed Blob

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

skills/web-artifacts-builder/scripts/shadcn-components.tar.gzView on unpkg

skills/theme-factory/theme-showcase.pdfView file

•path = skills/theme-factory/theme-showcase.pdf kind = high_entropy_blob sizeBytes = 124310 magicHex = [redacted]

High

Ships High Entropy Blob

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

skills/theme-factory/theme-showcase.pdfView on unpkg

skills/fedora-hyprland-installer/tests/test-scripts.shView file

•path = skills/fedora-hyprland-installer/tests/test-scripts.sh kind = payload_in_excluded_dir sizeBytes = 1740 magicHex = [redacted]

High

Payload In Excluded Dir

Package hides binary, compressed, or executable-looking payloads in test/fixture/hidden paths.

skills/fedora-hyprland-installer/tests/test-scripts.shView on unpkg

node_modules/ajv/dist/refs/data.jsonView file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 21

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

node_modules/ajv/dist/refs/data.jsonView on unpkg

tools/bin/install.jsView file

•matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = agentic-awesome-skills@17.1.0 matchedIdentity = npm:YWdlbnRpYy1hd2Vzb21lLXNraWxscw:17.1.0 similarity = 0.925 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file

Critical

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

tools/bin/install.jsView on unpkg

Source & flagged code

12 flagged · loading source

skills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.mdView file

165patternName = stripe_test_secret severity = high line = 165

High

High Secret

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

skills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.mdView on unpkg · L165

165patternName = stripe_test_secret severity = high line = 165

High

Secret Pattern

Stripe test secret key in skills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.md

skills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.mdView on unpkg · L165

node_modules/ajv/dist/compile/jtd/serialize.jsView file

Low

Findings

2 Critical6 High6 Medium5 Low

CriticalHardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltrationskills/apify-content-analytics/reference/scripts/run_actor.js

CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltatools/bin/install.js

HighHigh Secretskills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.md

HighCredential Exfiltrationskills/huggingface-tool-builder/references/baseline_hf_api.tsx

HighShips High Entropy Blobskills/theme-factory/theme-showcase.pdf

HighPayload In Excluded Dirskills/fedora-hyprland-installer/tests/test-scripts.sh

HighSemantic Analysis Limitednode_modules/ajv/dist/refs/data.json

HighSecret Patternskills/developer-signup-flow/SKILL.md

MediumDynamic Requiretools/bin/aas.js

MediumNetwork

Medium

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to agentic-awesome-skills@16.4.0.

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Evidence last updated: 2026-09-14 07:01:51.532Z (UTC).

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Decision evidence

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Source & flagged code

Findings

Affected versions and remediation

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