research-lookup
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on May 18, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICALREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: Both
SKILL.mdandREADME.mdinstruct the user and the agent to install theparallel-clitool by piping a script from a remote URL directly into a shell:curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash. This pattern allows for arbitrary code execution if the remote server is compromised or the connection is intercepted. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The
scripts/generate_schematic.pyscript utilizessubprocess.runto orchestrate the execution ofscripts/generate_schematic_ai.py. It passes user-provided input, such as diagram descriptions, as command-line arguments. Whileshell=Trueis not used, this still constitutes runtime command execution based on untrusted input. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill performs multiple external network operations, including fetching the installation script from
parallel.ai, making API calls toapi.parallel.aifor research synthesis, and connecting toopenrouter.aito access Perplexity's academic search models. - [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (Category 8) because it ingests untrusted data from external web and academic searches and processes it within the agent's context without adequate safety measures.
- Ingestion points: The skill fetches research findings from external APIs and saves them to local files in the
sources/directory, which are then read by the agent. - Boundary markers: There are no delimiters or specific instructions provided to the agent to treat content in the
sources/files as untrusted data or to ignore any embedded instructions within that data. - Capability inventory: The agent is granted significant capabilities, including the
Bashtool for shell command execution andWrite/Edittools for file modification. - Sanitization: No evidence of sanitization, filtering, or escaping of the external search content was found before the data is interpolated into the agent's context.
Recommendations
- HIGH: Downloads and executes remote code from: https://parallel.ai/install.sh - DO NOT USE without thorough review
- AI detected serious security threats
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