Caveat verdict

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🟠 Risky
Significant risk patterns flagged — automated deep scan, not behavioral proof.

Accesses credentials AND makes external network calls

The skill embeds a hardcoded API key (ai-tech-lab-secret-key-2024) and production server IP (118.145.101.171) as curl defaults, meaning agents may inadvertently authenticate and write to a real production server.

Automated static analysis — not a human review. Caveat flags capabilities, not confirmed intent, and can produce false positives. Disagree with this verdict? Use Dispute below.

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What it does

These are capability combinations: each listed behavior occurs in the skill, but Caveat detects co-occurrence — it does not verify that one flows into another. Read the code to confirm a live chain.

Capability combination high

Accesses credentials AND makes external network calls — potential credential theft

LLM02 · ASI03

Permission integrity

Makes network requests but does not declare curl/wget in required binaries

network_out

Code accesses API keys/tokens but declares no environment variables

credential_access

Installs packages at runtime — transitive dependencies are not auditable

package_install

Findings (2)

Pattern match high

HTTP request to bare IP address — common in malicious payloads

SKILL.md · code · http://118.145.101.171

Pattern match high

Possible hardcoded credential

SKILL.md · prose · downgraded · API_KEY="your-production-secret-key

Permissions & capabilities

No declared permissions — minimal attack surface.

package_installnetwork_outcredential_access
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