colab-remote
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jul 1, 2026
Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSDATA_EXFILTRATIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill utilizes local shell commands for SSH tunneling and file transfers. It employs the
-o StrictHostKeyChecking=noflag to bypass host verification, which is a common practice for connecting to ephemeral cloud environments like Google Colab. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: Instructions include the automated installation of the
colab-sshutility and standard machine learning libraries (such astorchandtransformers) onto the remote Colab runtime environment. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: Connection metadata and session-specific environment variables are stored locally in the user's home directory at
~/.colab-remote/session.envto facilitate session persistence. - [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill defines a surface for indirect prompt injection by ingesting data from the remote instance for local processing.
- Ingestion points: Training logs (
train.log) and performance metrics (results.json,metrics.json) are retrieved from the remote instance viasshandscpcommands. - Boundary markers: Data is ingested directly into the local agent context or scoring scripts without delimiters or boundary markers.
- Capability inventory: The workflow involves local execution of Python scripts and shell commands that could be influenced by malicious content in the remote logs or result files.
- Sanitization: There is no explicit sanitization or validation of the content retrieved from the remote instance before it is processed locally.
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