skills/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills/literature-survey-generator/Gen Agent Trust Hub
literature-survey-generator
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jun 22, 2026
Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSDATA_EXFILTRATION
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- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill executes
pdflatexandbibtexcommands to compile the generated research papers from LaTeX source into PDF files. This is performed in Phase 3 and Phase 4 of the workflow. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The pipeline fetches academic metadata and papers from established scholarly services including OpenAlex, CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and Unpaywall. It downloads PDF files from URLs provided by the Unpaywall API to a local directory.
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill sends HTTP requests (via
curlorWebFetch) to scholarly APIs. These requests include search keywords and a hardcoded contact email address (xueheng@mail.sysu.edu.cn). This is a standard "polite pool" identification practice required by these specific APIs to manage rate limits and service quality, and is consistent with academic software conventions.
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