parallel-web
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 25, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill's setup documentation instructs the agent to download and execute a remote shell script from
https://parallel.ai/install.shby piping the output ofcurldirectly intobash. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to ingest and process untrusted external data from the web, creating a vulnerability to indirect prompt injection.
- Ingestion points: Processes web search excerpts (
references/web-search.md), full-page content extractions (references/web-extract.md), and deep research reports (references/deep-research.md). - Boundary markers: There are no explicit delimiters or instructions provided to the agent to treat ingested web content as untrusted data.
- Capability inventory: The skill possesses network access and file system write capabilities through the
parallel-clitool (e.g., via the-oand--targetflags used to save results). - Sanitization: No sanitization, filtering, or validation is performed on the content retrieved from external URLs before it is provided to the agent.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill templates interpolate user-supplied arguments (
$ARGUMENTS) and other variables directly into shell command strings for theparallel-cliacross all reference files. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill initiates the download and installation of external packages, including
parallel-web-toolsandpython-dotenv, from public registries.
Recommendations
- HIGH: Downloads and executes remote code from: https://parallel.ai/install.sh - DO NOT USE without thorough review
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