literature-review-tools

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Audited by Socket on Jul 27, 2026

2 alerts found:

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SecurityMEDIUM
SKILL.md

SUSPICIOUS: the skill's behavior is broadly aligned with its literature-review purpose, but it acts as a high-trust launcher for many third-party tools, clones repos, and forwards API keys into external code. This looks more like a risky orchestration skill than overt malware; main concerns are supply-chain trust, credential forwarding, and transitive trust into MCP/skill ecosystems.

Confidence: 82%Severity: 76%
SecurityMEDIUM
scripts/litrun.py

No direct evidence of built-in malware/obfuscation in this snippet, but it is a high-privilege orchestrator that (1) reads untrusted recipe/workflow JSON to determine what to install and execute, (2) installs arbitrary dependencies via pip/uv, (3) clones and installs from external repos for web UIs, (4) executes recipe-defined entry points/scripts, and (5) can execute arbitrary Python code from a recipe's 'example' field when it starts with 'python -c'. It also writes and passes API keys to child processes and may persist them to .env files. Overall, the dominant risk is supply-chain/recipe tampering leading to arbitrary code execution and credential exposure.

Confidence: 70%Severity: 80%
Audit Metadata
Analyzed At
Jul 27, 2026, 10:10 AM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/brycewang-stanford%2Flit-review-agent-tools%2Fliterature-review-tools%2F@46655eb64283738cd5d2793310e7295e5ab387b624e4920ab5ffbbf63a8a0eb5
Security Audit — socket — literature-review-tools