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 using curl | 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-cli tool. 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 scan and blogwatcher-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-cli tool 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.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Sep 8, 2026, 07:01 PM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — blogwatcher