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FD korail-manager

Korail(KTX/SRT) reservation automation skill. Search, reserve, and watch for tickets.

Blockedguard blocked the skill: signs of malicious behaviour
modbender/skill-library-mcp Agent Skills author: modbender MIT 8 files body ≈ 255 tokens Open the sourcegithub.com analyzed 3 d ago

Korail(KTX/SRT) reservation automation skill.

As a process D 38/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions

ReferenceSoftware developmenttype and topics are labelled automatically from the skill text
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Technical rating
F
28/100
safety, quality, tests
Safety 60%
10
Quality 40%
55
Run on models
none yet
Process rating
D
38/100
Unfinished process
Result and completion w 14
0
Inputs and preconditions w 11
0
Failures and branches w 10
0
the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten
Guard blocked this skill: critical findings below. Do not install it until the author fixes them.

What is at stake

The skill contains fragments that, in the wrong hands, cost money or data. Below: what the installer risks and what the author should do.

Secrets in code
If you install

The files contain someone else's key or token. If it is live, your agent will call third-party services under a stranger's identity; if it was revoked, the skill's scripts simply fail. Such a key often arrives with the author's whole workspace, personal data included.

For the author

The key is visible to everyone who downloaded the skill and has likely been copied by catalog-scanning bots already. Revoke it now, check bills and access logs, then reissue.

Exfiltration medium severity

Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.

If you install

The instructions or scripts send data out: environment variables, keys, file contents, chat history. You may never notice, because the agent performs the upload as "part of the task".

For the author

If the upload is not needed for the task, remove it: catalogs flag such skills and delist them. If it is needed, name the destination explicitly, say what leaves the machine, and give the user a switch.

How to improve

  1. Remove the critical guard findings (secrets, dangerous commands, hidden instructions): while they stand the skill is blocked and cannot grade above F.
  2. Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
For the model run — optional
  • Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
  • A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.

Guard findings · 2

  • critical Secrets in code secret-telegram-bot scripts/watch.py:36
    Telegram bot token (quoted — discussed, not commanded)
    TELEGRAM_TOKEN = os.environ.get("TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN", "8395…AHK…")
    quoted
Medium and low: 1
  • medium Exfiltration exfil-webhook-url scripts/watch.py:17
    Webhook / callback URL commonly used for exfiltration (verify the destination) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)
    url = f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/sendMessage"
    quoted

Files scanned: 8. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

  • warning description-no-when description does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")

Process rating: all ten parameters 38/100

  • 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
  • 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
  • 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
  • 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
  • 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
  • 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
  • 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (korail-manager) differs from the folder (korail-manager-ben)
  • 50Steps. 2 steps
  • 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
  • 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 255 tokens

Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.

Quality signals

  • +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
  • +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
  • +3Description length 85: 120–800 characters recommended
  • +4Structure: 0 headings, hard to scan
  • +3No numbered steps or checklist
  • +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
  • +4No input/output examples
  • -31 of 3 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
  • +1No license
  • +2Single-language instructions

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 55.