podcast-summarizer
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 4, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill fetches and transcribes audio from external podcast episodes (Spotify, RSS feeds, or direct MP3 URLs). A malicious actor could embed verbal instructions in the podcast audio that, once transcribed, might influence the LLM's behavior during the summarization phase.
- Ingestion points:
scripts/summarize_podcast.pyfetches content from arbitrary external URLs provided by the user or found in RSS feeds. - Boundary markers: The transcription text is interpolated directly into the prompt template (
Transcript:\n{text[:50000]}) without robust isolation markers or instructions to ignore embedded commands. - Capability inventory: The skill possesses the ability to execute shell commands (
whisper), make network requests (requests), and write to the local file system. - Sanitization: There is no sanitization or filtering of the transcribed text before it is sent to the LLM for summarization.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill uses
subprocess.runto execute thewhisperCLI tool for speech-to-text processing. While the implementation follows best practices by passing arguments as a list rather than a shell string (which mitigates shell injection), it remains an execution of a local system binary.
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