kata-whats-new
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 18, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMMETADATA_POISONINGINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [METADATA_POISONING]: The skill's display output instructions contain a link to
github.com/gannnonh/kata, which uses a misspelled version of the author's username (gannnonhinstead ofgannonh). This matches patterns associated with typosquatting and could lead users to a deceptive or malicious fork of the repository. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill fetches a remote
CHANGELOG.mdfile and instructs the agent to extract and format its contents. This creates a surface for indirect prompt injection if the remote file were to contain malicious instructions. - Ingestion points: Remote file fetch from GitHub using the WebFetch tool in
SKILL.md. - Boundary markers: None specified in the instructions to the agent for processing the fetched content.
- Capability inventory: Shell command execution (
cat), file system access via thekata-lib.cjsNode.js script (reading/writingconfig.json), and network access via WebFetch. - Sanitization: No sanitization is performed on the fetched content before it is parsed and displayed to the user.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: Fetches a
CHANGELOG.mdfile from the author's legitimate GitHub repository (gannonh/kata) to perform version comparison. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Executes shell commands to read the local
VERSIONfile and includes a Node.js utility script (scripts/kata-lib.cjs) that performs file system operations, directory traversal, and configuration management.
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