podcast-ad-removal
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 16, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches podcast metadata from the iTunes Search API (itunes.apple.com) and downloads audio files from various external URLs provided in RSS feeds.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill performs shell command execution via
curl,mkdir, anduv run. It depends on local Python scripts (transcribe.py,remove_ads.py) and auvproject environment located at a specific hardcoded path:/Users/mtm/pdev/taylormonacelli/steamysquirrel. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill exfiltrates data by uploading the processed MP3 files to
litterbox.catbox.moe, an anonymous public file-sharing service. This involves network operations to a non-whitelisted domain. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes untrusted external content that may contain malicious instructions.
- Ingestion points: External RSS feed XML (feed.xml) and transcribed audio text (transcript.json) generated from external MP3 files.
- Boundary markers: No explicit delimiters or instructions to ignore instructions found within the transcribed content are used.
- Capability inventory: The skill has the capability to execute shell commands, run local Python scripts, and perform network uploads.
- Sanitization: The agent is instructed to 'read' the transcribed timestamped text to identify and cut ad segments; spoken instructions in the audio (e.g., 'Ignore previous instructions') could influence the agent's logic if they appear in the transcript.
- [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: The skill uses
python -cin Step 5 to execute a Python script string passed via the command line to filter the generated transcript.
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