paperclip

Fail

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 1, 2026

Risk Level: HIGHREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSPERSISTENCEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
  • [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill instructions include a command to install the software by fetching a shell script from a remote URL and piping it directly into the bash interpreter: curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash. This pattern is considered high risk as it executes unverified remote code with user privileges.\n- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The documentation describes installing the Python SDK from an unversioned remote wheel file at https://paperclip.gxl.ai/paperclip.whl instead of using a standard, version-pinned package from a secure registry.\n- [PERSISTENCE]: The installation guide recommends that users modify their shell profile files, such as ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc, to add the tool's binary path to their environment, which is a method for maintaining the tool's availability across different shell sessions.\n- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes extensive full-text biomedical papers and regulatory documents which could contain embedded malicious instructions.\n
  • Ingestion points: Data is ingested through paperclip search, grep, cat, and map commands as defined in the skill instructions.\n
  • Boundary markers: The skill includes explicit rules for the agent to treat all server-returned content as data and to ignore any instructions found within that content.\n
  • Capability inventory: The skill possesses the Bash Read Write tool, allowing it to perform local file system operations.\n
  • Sanitization: The security relies on the agent's adherence to natural language instructions to separate data from commands, rather than technical validation steps.\n- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill relies on executing a local binary and various shell operations, including the sourcing of .env files for environment variable management.
Recommendations
  • HIGH: Downloads and executes remote code from: https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh - DO NOT USE without thorough review
  • AI detected serious security threats
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
HIGH
Analyzed
Oct 1, 2026, 07:50 AM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — paperclip