paper-analyzer
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 21, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches PDF and tarball files from
arxiv.orgusingcurl. As arXiv is a well-known and reputable service for academic research, these downloads are considered safe and consistent with the skill's primary intent. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to ingest and analyze untrusted external data (academic papers) which could potentially contain malicious instructions intended to influence the agent's behavior during the summary or graph update phase.
- Ingestion points: Paper content is downloaded from
arxiv.org/pdfandarxiv.org/absinto/tmp/paper_analysis/before being processed by the agent. - Boundary markers: The instructions do not include specific delimiters or warnings to the agent to disregard instructions found within the processed paper content.
- Capability inventory: The agent has access to
write_fileandrun_terminal, which it uses to execute local Python scripts (generate_note.pyandupdate_graph.py) to save analysis results. - Sanitization: The bundled Python scripts perform basic string substitution for templates but do not implement formal sanitization or validation of the text extracted from the papers.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill uses
run_terminalto executecurlfor fetching papers and to run its local Python scripts. This is standard functional behavior for the described research workflow.
Recommendations
- HIGH: Downloads and executes remote code from: https://arxiv.org/pdf/[PAPER_ID] - DO NOT USE without thorough review
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