protein-sequence-similarity-search
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on May 19, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: Performs network requests to established scientific services including api.colabfold.com (ColabFold) and www.ebi.ac.uk (European Bioinformatics Institute) to submit sequences and retrieve search results.
- [SAFE]: Implements a robust security policy regarding user credentials by instructing the agent to never read, print, or inspect the environment variables or the .env file directly, ensuring that sensitive data like the user's email address stays out of the agent's context.
- [SAFE]: The mmseqs2_search.py script includes security logic to prevent path traversal vulnerabilities when extracting downloaded MSA archives by checking for absolute paths and directory traversal sequences in member filenames.
- [SAFE]: Provides a secure method for users to manage their contact information by offering a local shell command for environment variable updates rather than requesting the information within the AI chat.
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