blogwatcher
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 8, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill provides installation instructions that involve downloading pre-compiled binaries from a personal GitHub repository (
JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli) and piping the output to the system's binary directory usingcurl | tar. This installation method lacks integrity verification and relies on an unverified source, representing a supply chain risk. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill's functionality is built around executing shell commands via the
blogwatcher-clitool. The agent is instructed to use these commands to add blogs, scan feeds, and manage articles, which creates an active command execution surface. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes untrusted external data from RSS/Atom feeds and HTML scraping, which could contain malicious instructions designed to influence the agent's behavior.
- Ingestion points: External content is fetched from arbitrary URLs during feed discovery, scanning, and article listing (e.g., via
blogwatcher-cli scanandblogwatcher-cli articles). - Boundary markers: The skill instructions do not specify any delimiters or safety warnings to help the agent distinguish between feed content and operational instructions.
- Capability inventory: The skill utilizes the
blogwatcher-clitool which has capabilities for network access and local file system interaction (managing a SQLite database at~/.blogwatcher-cli/). - Sanitization: There is no evidence of sanitization or filtering of the content retrieved from external feeds before it is presented to the agent.
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