exa-reliability-patterns
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 12, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill integrates external search results from the web via the Exa API, creating a surface for untrusted data to potentially influence agent behavior through indirect prompt injection.
- Ingestion points: The skill ingests external content via the
exa.searchAndContentsandexa.searchmethods as described inSKILL.md. - Boundary markers: The code examples provided do not include specific prompt delimiters or markers to isolate the retrieved web content from the agent's instructions.
- Capability inventory: The skill is granted
Read,Write, andEdittool permissions in its configuration, which could be leveraged if malicious data successfully influences the agent. - Sanitization: The instructions provide procedural mitigation by explicitly warning developers not to 'turn a failed retrieval into an unreviewed automated decision' and recommending the use of 'sanitized test inputs' in
SKILL.md. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill references official API documentation from Exa and technical articles on the circuit breaker pattern from well-known sources like Martin Fowler. These are informational references for integration guidance and do not involve the execution of remote scripts.
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