youtube-research
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 15, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes untrusted external data in the form of YouTube transcripts and web search results, which provides a surface for indirect prompt injection.
- Ingestion points: Transcripts are retrieved from YouTube via the
scripts/fetch_transcript.pyscript, and additional context is gathered using theWebFetchtool. - Boundary markers: The skill does not define specific delimiters or instructions to the AI to ignore embedded commands within the analyzed transcripts.
- Capability inventory: The agent has access to
Bash(allowing for network requests and script execution),WebSearch, andWebFetchtools. - Sanitization: No evidence of sanitization, filtering, or validation of the transcript text is present before the content is passed to the AI for analysis.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill documentation and scripts specify a dependency on the
youtube-transcript-apiPython package. This is a common community-maintained library, but it must be installed from an external registry. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill provides numerous
bashcommand templates usingcurlandjqto interact with the YouTube Data API. It specifically utilizesbash -cexecution patterns to maintain environment variables like the API key during processing.
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