Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-F93E9BB0

7/7/2026, 4:50:18 AM

writing-skills security assessment v4

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History
Audit model: codex Historical report
Skill name
writing-skills
Version
v4
Maintainer
sickn33
Source
github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/writing-skills
Coverage
21 Files scanned · 4,086 Lines analyzed
Policy version
Unavailable

Highest confirmed finding severity

Medium

1 confirmed security finding requires attention.

Installation context

Historical evidence

This report may not describe the currently installable artifact. Open the current Skill page for install guidance.

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This report does not block or authorize the manifest or ZIP.

Most static findings are false positives from Markdown examples, inline code, and documented configuration paths. The bundled Graphviz helper uses hardcoded commands and visible file writes, with no evidence of command injection, exfiltration, persistence, or prompt-injection text. A semantic concern remains because the skill teaches dual-use persuasion techniques for increasing agent compliance.

Report position

Historical report

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Audit attestation

Not attestable

The required immutable binding is incomplete.

Human verification

Not verified

No human verification is recorded for this report.

Coverage

21 Files scanned · 4,086 Lines analyzed

1 item shown for review

Limitations

This report does not claim runtime or sandbox execution and does not prove the absence of side effects.

Evidence chain

Follow the evidence from source binding to the install contract. Available evidence supports verification; it is not a safety guarantee.

  1. Source

    Binding unavailable

  2. Artifact

    Identity incomplete

  3. Audit

    Complete

  4. Install contract

    Open manifest to verify

    Open manifest

Capabilities observed

Observed means this report recorded supporting evidence. Not recorded does not prove that a capability is absent.

Contains scripts

May execute code included with the Skill.

Observed in 1 evidence location

Network access

May connect to external services.

Not recorded by this audit

Filesystem access

May read or write local files.

Observed in 20 evidence locations

Env variables

May read values from the process environment.

Not recorded by this audit

External commands

May invoke commands or programs outside the Skill.

Observed in 57 evidence locations

Risk findings

Confirmed security concerns are separated from items that still need review.

Confirmed security concerns (1)

RISK-001 Medium
persuasion-principles.md:5-7persuasion-principles.md:153-165references/anti-rationalization/README.md:113-150
Dual-use Agent Compliance Persuasion Guidance
The skill teaches authors to use persuasion principles, strong authority language, and commitment framing to increase AI agent compliance. It includes ethical cautions, but the guidance could be adapted to override agent judgment outside user-approved quality workflows.
The cited files explicitly describe compliance-increasing persuasion techniques and also provide ethical boundaries. Confidence is high for dual-use content but lower than malicious because the stated purpose is quality enforcement.

Remediation

Suggested fixes recorded by this audit. Applying them is the maintainer’s responsibility.

  1. FIX-001
    Medium
    Dual-use persuasion guidance
    Keep ethical-use guidance adjacent to persuasion techniques and require user consent for strict compliance language. Avoid examples that shame, coerce, or override higher-priority instructions.
  2. FIX-002
    Low
    Optional graph rendering helper
    Document that render-graphs.js executes Graphviz and writes diagram files only after explicit user approval. Keep commands hardcoded and avoid shell interpolation.
  3. FIX-003
    Low
    Home-directory setup examples
    Label ~/.config examples as manual setup commands. Prefer project-local examples when possible to reduce accidental writes to user configuration.

Expert evidence

Immutable subject identity, scanner metadata, dismissed matches, and source-level evidence.

Artifact subject

Marketplace commit
Unavailable
Content hash
Unavailable
Tree hash
Unavailable
Skill path
Unavailable
Audit payload hash
Unavailable

Analysis metadata

Audit model: codex

Analysis state: Complete

Scope is limited to the recorded files, lines, methods, and evidence. No runtime or sandbox execution is claimed.

Verify and export

JSON report CITATION.cff SARIF 2.1.0 Signed installation manifest

The manifest and lockfile bind install artifacts to cryptographic hashes. This integrity claim is separate from the security assessment.

Audit attestation: not_attestable