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.py script, and additional context is gathered using the WebFetch tool.
  • 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, and WebFetch tools.
  • 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-api Python package. This is a common community-maintained library, but it must be installed from an external registry.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill provides numerous bash command templates using curl and jq to interact with the YouTube Data API. It specifically utilizes bash -c execution patterns to maintain environment variables like the API key during processing.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Sep 15, 2026, 01:07 PM