ai-agent-design

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Mar 23, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E004: Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

  • Potential prompt injection detected (high risk: 0.80). The prompt includes an explicit "companion check" that instructs the agent to run shell commands (ls on multiple ~/.claude/skills paths and offer npx installs) to inspect and modify the host environment — a side‑effectful, local-file access & install step that is outside the stated scope of "AI agent design" and could expose or change local data, so it functions as a hidden/deceptive instruction.

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill's SKILL.md explicitly defines and uses a "search_web" tool and ReAct/agent-loop examples (and the references/agent-patterns.md ReAct examples) that fetch web titles/URLs/snippets and append those observations into the agent's context, so the agent ingests untrusted public web content that can materially influence subsequent tool use and decisions.

MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill defines a write_file tool that can overwrite arbitrary absolute file paths (which could be used to modify system/privileged files) and its companion check encourages running shell commands/installing skills (npx), enabling changes to the host state even though it doesn't explicitly request sudo or user creation.

Issues (3)

E004
CRITICAL

Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

W011
MEDIUM

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

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Mar 23, 2026, 01:03 PM
Issues
3
Security Audit — snyk — ai-agent-design