hyperagents-self-improving-ai
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on May 17, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: Use of 'exec()' in the 'evaluate_agent' and 'CodeGenerationAgent.test_code' functions to run Python code generated by the language model. This allows for arbitrary code execution within the environment if the model provides malicious instructions.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Use of 'pickle.load()' in the 'CheckpointManager' class for deserializing agent metadata and performance history. Loading untrusted pickle files can lead to arbitrary code execution.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: Fetches the HyperAgents framework from the official Facebook Research repository on GitHub.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Setup instructions include 'sudo' commands for installing system-level dependencies on Fedora, RHEL, and Debian-based systems.
- [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill presents an indirect prompt injection surface where the meta-agent generates new code based on external performance data and existing implementations. If these inputs are manipulated, the agent could be induced to generate backdoors.
- Ingestion points: 'performance_data' and 'agent_code' are processed by the meta-agent in 'generate_improvement' and 'run_meta_improvement_cycle'.
- Boundary markers: Uses Markdown triple backticks to delimit code blocks within model prompts.
- Capability inventory: Includes capabilities for dynamic code execution (exec), syntax compilation (compile), and data serialization (pickle).
- Sanitization: Provides a 'safety_check' helper and uses 'ast.parse' for syntax verification, although these are presented as optional debugging steps rather than mandatory enforcement in the core loop.
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