daily-paper-generator

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 17, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill fetches paper titles and abstracts from external, user-contributed repositories (arXiv and bioRxiv) and processes them directly within the AI's context for evaluation and summarization. This creates an attack surface where a maliciously crafted paper abstract could attempt to influence the agent's behavior during the review process.
  • Ingestion points: Metadata is retrieved via scripts/arxiv_search.py from export.arxiv.org and api.biorxiv.org.
  • Boundary markers: The instructions in SKILL.md and references/writing-style.md do not specify the use of protective delimiters or "ignore embedded instructions" directives when handling the fetched content.
  • Capability inventory: The agent is authorized to execute a local Python script and perform file system writes to the daily paper/ directory.
  • Sanitization: The fetching script performs basic whitespace normalization but does not implement sanitization or filtering to remove potential prompt injection sequences from the external text.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill requires the agent to execute a provided Python script (scripts/arxiv_search.py) with user-provided queries. The script performs network operations to fetch data from well-known scientific databases and writes results to a local file. This is a standard part of the skill's intended functionality.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The scripts/arxiv_search.py script utilizes the feedparser library to process Atom feeds from arXiv. While feedparser is a standard, widely-used library for this purpose, it is an external dependency that the agent is expected to have available in its environment.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Sep 17, 2026, 08:01 AM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — daily-paper-generator