paperclip

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Aug 1, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

  • Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 1.00). These URLs include a direct remote shell script (install.sh) intended to be piped to bash and an unversioned wheel (paperclip.whl) hosted on a non-standard domain without published checksums/signatures — both are high-risk executable distribution vectors that could be used to deliver malware.

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (medium risk: 0.30). Paperclip’s runtime workflow reads full text from its corpus-backed virtual filesystem into LLM readers via commands like paperclip map --from <RESULTS_ID> "<query>", where map “runs an LLM reader over each document in a result set” using server-returned paper content.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill bundle includes an explicit runtime installer that executes a remote shell script via "curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash" and recommends installing an unversioned wheel from "https://paperclip.gxl.ai/paperclip.whl", both of which fetch and run remote code during installation.

Issues (3)

E005
CRITICAL

Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Aug 1, 2026, 06:57 PM
Issues
3
Security Audit — snyk — paperclip