article-extractor

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Aug 21, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill provides instructions for the agent to install third-party tools such as trafilatura (via pip) and @mozilla/readability-cli (via npm). While these are popular libraries, they represent a remote dependency risk if the package registries or specific versions are compromised.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill makes extensive use of the Bash tool to execute shell commands, including piping content between curl, sed, tr, and python3. There is a risk of command injection if the URL or extracted article title (used for filenames) is not correctly handled, though the provided scripts include sanitization steps for filenames.
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: As a tool designed to scrape and process external web content, the skill is susceptible to indirect prompt injection. If an attacker controls the content of a URL being processed, they could embed instructions designed to manipulate the agent's behavior during the 'preview' or 'verification' steps.
  • [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: While not performing exfiltration itself, the skill uses curl to fetch content from user-provided URLs. This could be abused for internal network scanning (SSRF) if the agent is operating within a restricted environment.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Aug 21, 2026, 05:03 AM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — article-extractor