Security Audit

Automattic/agent-skills:skills/wp-performance

github.com/Automattic/agent-skills

AI SkillCommit 48d4aa21d0da

CRITICAL

Scanned 12 days ago

Critical

Immediate action required

High

Priority fixes suggested

Medium

Best practices review

Low

Acknowledged / Tracked

Trust Assessment

Automattic/agent-skills:skills/wp-performance received a trust score of 40/100, placing it in the Untrusted category. This skill has significant security findings that require attention before use in production.

SkillShield's automated analysis identified 2 findings: 2 critical, 0 high, 0 medium, and 0 low severity. Key findings include Persistence / self-modification instructions.

The analysis covered 4 layers: dependency_graph, llm_behavioral_safety, manifest_analysis, static_code_analysis. The manifest_analysis layer scored lowest at 40/100, indicating areas for improvement.

Last analyzed on February 8, 2026 (commit 48d4aa21). SkillShield performs automated 4-layer security analysis on AI skills and MCP servers.

Layer Breakdown

Manifest Analysis

40%

Static Code Analysis

100%

Dependency Graph

100%

LLM Behavioral Safety

100%

Behavioral Risk Signals

Filesystem Write

2 findings

Shell Execution

2 findings

Security Findings2

Severity	Finding	Layer	Location
CRITICAL	Persistence / self-modification instructions Shell RC file modification for persistence Remove any persistence mechanisms. Skills should not modify system startup configurations, crontabs, LaunchAgents, systemd services, or shell profiles.	Unknown	/tmp/skillscan-clone-bjbdnask/repo/skills/wp-performance/scripts/perf_inspect.mjs:100
CRITICAL	Persistence / self-modification instructions Shell RC file modification for persistence Remove any persistence mechanisms. Skills should not modify system startup configurations, crontabs, LaunchAgents, systemd services, or shell profiles.	Unknown	/tmp/skillscan-clone-bjbdnask/repo/skills/wp-performance/scripts/perf_inspect.mjs:122

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