alterlab-biorxiv

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 25, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes untrusted metadata from the bioRxiv API, including paper titles and abstracts, which represents an indirect prompt injection attack surface.
  • Ingestion points: Data enters the agent's context through the search_by_date_range, search_by_keywords, and get_paper_details methods in scripts/biorxiv_search.py, which fetch content from api.biorxiv.org.
  • Boundary markers: The skill does not employ delimiters or explicit instructions to the agent to distinguish the retrieved preprint content from its own instructions.
  • Capability inventory: The skill has capabilities to write search results to local JSON files and download PDF documents to the local file system.
  • Sanitization: The script performs keyword filtering but does not implement sanitization or escaping of the retrieved text content before presenting it to the agent.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: Fetches preprint metadata and downloads full-text PDF files from the official bioRxiv infrastructure.
  • Evidence: The script scripts/biorxiv_search.py makes network requests to api.biorxiv.org for metadata and www.biorxiv.org for PDF downloads, which are the established official domains for the bioRxiv service.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Sep 25, 2026, 02:36 PM