codex-autoresearch
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jul 16, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
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- [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill contains explicit instructions to suppress standard AI safety behaviors regarding user oversight and confirmation.
references/interaction-wizard.mdandreferences/autonomous-loop-protocol.mdmandate that the agent must "NEVER pause to ask the user anything during the loop -- not for clarification, not for confirmation, not for permission."- This behavior is justified in-context as allowing the user to "sleep" while the agent works, but it effectively removes human-in-the-loop control for high-risk actions.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill's architecture relies on executing arbitrary shell commands provided by the user or inferred from the repository structure.
- Multiple Python scripts, including
scripts/autoresearch_init_run.py,scripts/autoresearch_record_iteration.py, andscripts/autoresearch_health_check.py, usesubprocess.runto execute git operations and user-defined "verify" and "guard" commands. - The
references/exec-workflow.mdspecifically encourages users to run the agent with the--dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandboxflag in CI/CD environments. - [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill supports a "background" mode that spawns detached long-running processes.
scripts/autoresearch_runtime_ops.pyusessubprocess.Popenwithstart_new_session=Trueto launch a detached runtime controller that manages its own lifecycle and nested Codex sessions.- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill includes mechanisms for fetching data and code from external sources.
references/web-search-protocol.mddefines a protocol for autonomous web searches when the agent is "stuck," treating search results as inputs for new code-generation hypotheses.- The documentation in
README.mdanddocs/INSTALL.mdprovides instructions for downloading the skill viagit clonefrom a non-vendor GitHub repository.
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