Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-F93E9BB0

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

writing-skills security assessment v5

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History
Audit model: codex Latest published report
Skill name
writing-skills
Version
v5
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

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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

Latest published report

Latest refers to the report sequence, not to artifact currentness.

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

    Commit and path bound

  2. Artifact

    Content and tree hashes bound

  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
f93e9bb0daca99badb6a7e574b97737155d57cb3
Content hash
f02d40a68d473859d420aa596dcc7c64bb9b7977ecfdbcf0109f20720d800f50
Tree hash
73467685c8871efe2ed22765a5ae2ae4e0b977b7a6eb9422f969cc143f8b3986
Skill path
skills/sickn33/writing-skills
Audit payload hash
70c08f05f35fd556fd1b9a70d4fb754a

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 Source

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

Audit attestation: not_attestable