pubmed-database

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 23, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONOBFUSCATIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill retrieves and processes external biomedical literature from the PubMed database, creating a surface for potential injection attacks embedded in third-party content.
  • Ingestion points: Untrusted data enters the agent context via the NCBI E-utilities API responses (PMIDs, abstracts, and full-text metadata) as described in SKILL.md (Section 4) and references/api_reference.md.
  • Boundary markers: There are no explicit delimiters or instructions provided to the agent to treat retrieved search results as untrusted or to ignore any instructions embedded within them.
  • Capability inventory: The skill relies on network operations via the requests library to fetch data and performs parsing of external XML, JSON, and text responses.
  • Sanitization: The documentation does not specify any sanitization, filtering, or validation steps for the content retrieved from PubMed before it is displayed or used by the agent.
  • [OBFUSCATION]: The skill uses string reversal to hide a support email address in multiple files.
  • Evidence: The string vog.hin.mln.ibcn@seitilitue in SKILL.md and references/api_reference.md is a reversed representation of the email utilities@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill initiates network requests to retrieve medical research data from a well-known government-hosted API.
  • Source: https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/
  • Context: These requests target the official National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) infrastructure and are consistent with the documented purpose of biomedical literature retrieval.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Sep 23, 2026, 04:49 PM