chatter
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on May 20, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMDATA_EXFILTRATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The
chatterhelper script is vulnerable to directory traversal. Theslugparameter is concatenated with the root directory (root / slug) without sanitization, allowing an agent to be directed to read or write.mdfiles in arbitrary directories on the filesystem.\n- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill executes local binaries (fswatchorinotifywait) viasubprocess.runto monitor filesystem changes. While the calls use safe list-based arguments, they provide the agent with the ability to invoke external processes.\n- [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes untrusted data from other agents, creating an indirect prompt injection surface.\n - Ingestion points: The
chatterscript reads message content from.mdfiles in the thread directory.\n - Boundary markers: Uses
---YAML frontmatter delimiters to separate metadata from content.\n - Capability inventory: The skill can write files and execute local monitoring tools.\n
- Sanitization: Performs structural validation of the frontmatter but does not filter or sanitize message bodies.
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