deep-research

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Aug 10, 2026

Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill makes extensive use of shell commands to support its research and reporting workflow. It utilizes date +%Y-%m-%d for timestamping research. It uses curl for downloading external research materials such as PDFs and datasets. It employs pandoc and md-to-pdf to convert generated Markdown reports into PDF format. Use of these tools on content sourced from the web carries a risk if the input contains exploits targeting the underlying rendering engines.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill is centered around fetching data from the public internet. It uses WebSearch and WebFetch as core research capabilities. Instructions in references/parallel-search.md explicitly permit sub-agents to use curl for downloading external files for summarization.
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill exhibits a significant attack surface for indirect prompt injection. 1. Ingestion points: Untrusted data enters the agent context via WebSearch, WebFetch, and curl downloads (SKILL.md, references/parallel-search.md). 2. Boundary markers: The instructions lack explicit boundary markers or 'ignore' directives to prevent the agent from following instructions embedded within the retrieved research data. 3. Capability inventory: The agent has access to Write, Agent (for spawning sub-agents), and Bash (for curl, pandoc, and md-to-pdf), which could be leveraged if an injection is successful. 4. Sanitization: There is no evidence of sanitization or filtering of external content before it is processed or written to the report file.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Aug 10, 2026, 01:31 AM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — deep-research