pinecone
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 3, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [SAFE]: The skill utilizes placeholders such as
your-api-keyandyour-keyinSKILL.mdandreferences/deployment.md, which is a safe practice for demonstrating API interaction without exposing real credentials. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill references and installs several well-known and official libraries including
pinecone-client,langchain-pinecone,langchain-openai, andllama-index. These references point to established services and follow standard integration patterns for vector databases. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill documentation describes data ingestion and retrieval patterns that represent an indirect prompt injection surface:
- Ingestion points: Data is ingested via
index.upsertcalls inSKILL.mdandreferences/deployment.md, where arbitrary vector metadata is stored. - Boundary markers: The examples do not include explicit delimiters or instructions to ignore potential commands embedded in metadata.
- Capability inventory: The skill uses the official Pinecone client to perform network operations for indexing and querying data.
- Sanitization: There is no demonstration of data sanitization for the values stored in or retrieved from the database.
- Assessment: These surfaces are inherent to the intended use-case of a vector database for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and do not represent a malicious implementation in this context.
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