assessing-vector-and-embedding-weaknesses

assessing-vector-and-embedding-weaknesses is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security testing guide for vector databases and embedding models used by retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. RAG systems look up relevant documents before an AI model answers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test embedding inversion, membership inference, cross-tenant data leakage, missing access filters, and poisoning risks in vector stores.
Why use it?
It helps find whether stored document representations can reveal source text, expose another customer’s data, or be poisoned with misleading content. The tests are intended only for systems you own or are authorized to assess.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to test embedding inversion, membership inference, cross-tenant data leakage, missing access filters, and poisoning risks in vector stores.

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Install with agentmods
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Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai --skill assessing-vector-and-embedding-weaknesses
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,726 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.02726
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01363
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00273

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6f6ec3f2c621, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assessing-vector-and-embedding-weaknesses scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

cursor-claude-codex/skills/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/skills/assessing-vector-and-embedding-weaknesses/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assessing Vector and Embedding Weaknesses

Authorized use only: These tests interact with vector stores and embedding models in RAG systems you own or are authorized to assess. Embedding inversion and cross-tenant probing against systems you do not control may expose third-party data and is prohibited without authorization.

Overview

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems convert documents into embedding vectors stored in a vector database (Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Chroma, pgvector, FAISS) and retrieve the nearest vectors to ground LLM responses. OWASP LLM08:2025 Vector and Embedding Weaknesses covers the security risks unique to this layer:

  • Embedding inversion — embeddings are not one-way. A trained inversion model (or a black-box reconstruction attack) can recover substantial portions of the original text from its vector, leaking source documents (maps to MITRE ATLAS AML.T0024.001 Invert ML Model).
  • Membership inference — querying whether a specific record contributed to the corpus (AML.T0024.000).
  • Cross-tenant / multi-tenant leakage — when one namespace/collection is shared or filter isolation is missing, a tenant retrieves another tenant's chunks.
  • Knowledge-base poisoning — an attacker who can write to the corpus inserts crafted chunks that dominate retrieval (high cosine similarity to expected queries) and carry indirect prompt-injection payloads.
  • Retrieval manipulation — adversarial documents tuned to be retrieved for many unrelated queries ("retrieval hijacking").

The parent technique is AML.T0024 — Exfiltration via ML Inference API: an attacker uses legitimate inference/query access to exfiltrate data (source text via inversion, membership, or model extraction). This skill provides a repeatable assessment of all five weakness classes.

When to Use

  • During a security assessment of any RAG / vector-search application (OWASP LLM08 coverage).
  • When a vector store is multi-tenant and you must prove namespace/metadata isolation.
  • When the corpus accepts user-supplied or third-party documents (poisoning surface).
  • When the embedding endpoint is externally reachable (inversion/membership surface).
  • When validating retrieval-filtering controls before go-live.

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 234 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 6f6ec3f2c621

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assessing-vector-and-embedding-weaknesses is a skill published in the GitHub repository adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai (57 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,726 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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