literature-review

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Jun 14, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

  • Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 0.80). Most links are legitimate academic resources, but the inclusion of a direct shell installer URL (https://parallel.ai/install.sh) and an explicit "curl ... | bash" install instruction in the skill prompt (plus API key endpoints) are high‑risk indicators that could be used to distribute malware.

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.85). The required runtime workflow uses parallel-cli search (and often parallel-cli extract) to fetch public web pages/paper text from outsider-authored sources, and those fetched excerpts/full text are then ingested into the agent’s LLM context for screening/synthesis—i.e., public web content fetched at runtime → LLM-readable prose.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The scientific-schematics scripts call the OpenRouter API at runtime (base URL https://openrouter.ai/api/v1) to generate and review images, and the remote model's critique is used to iteratively modify generation prompts — a mandatory dependency for this skill that means external responses directly control agent prompts.

MEDIUM W021: Hidden or invisible Unicode characters detected (potential obfuscation or prompt injection).

  • Hidden Unicode characters detected (1 type(s) found)

Issues (4)

E005
CRITICAL

Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

W021
MEDIUM

Hidden or invisible Unicode characters detected (potential obfuscation or prompt injection).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Jun 14, 2026, 09:22 AM
Issues
4
Security Audit — snyk — literature-review