--- title: Nvidia's New Tool Just Fixed Agent Skills | daily.dev description: Nvidia released Skill Spectre, a CLI tool that scans AI agent skills for security vulnerabilities before installation. A study of 30,000+ agent skills found... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-s-new-tool-just-fixed-agent-skills-mxvfekhlw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Nvidia's New Tool Just Fixed Agent Skills | daily.dev og:description: Nvidia released Skill Spectre, a CLI tool that scans AI agent skills for security vulnerabilities before installation. A study of 30,000+ agent skills found... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-s-new-tool-just-fixed-agent-skills-mxvfekhlw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mxvFEkHLw.png og:image:alt: Nvidia's New Tool Just Fixed Agent Skills og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Nvidia's New Tool Just Fixed Agent Skills **[AI LABS](https://daily.dev/sources/ailabs-393)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nvidia released Skill Spectre, a CLI tool that scans AI agent skills for security vulnerabilities before installation. A study of 30,000+ agent skills found over 25% had security issues. The tool detects six attack categories: hidden instructions, tool impersonation via lookalike Unicode characters, misleading descriptions, credential theft, malware, and poisoned dependencies. A second AI-powered scan mode catches context-dependent threats missed by pattern matching, but it requires an OpenAI key by default — a workaround using Claude Code's headless mode avoids that cost. The post also demonstrates a full discovery workflow combining skills.sh for finding skills and Skill Spectre for vetting them before installation, turning the scanner itself into a reusable agent skill. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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