auto-research

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Audited by Snyk on May 8, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill's Phase 2 "Parallel Research" (in SKILL.md) and the sub-agent prompt in references/research-strategies.md explicitly require spawning web-searching sub-agents that WebSearch/WebFetch public URLs (docs, GitHub, blogs, forums), and those fetched third-party pages are read, quoted, and used to drive rewrites and autonomous eval-loop decisions, exposing the agent to untrusted user-generated web content that can influence behavior.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill's Phase 2 requires spawning parallel sub-agents that perform WebSearch/WebFetch at runtime and "quote verbatim" authoritative pages (e.g. https://docs.claude.com, https://anthropic.com/engineering, https://github.com/anthropics/skills), and those fetched pages are explicitly incorporated into the model's findings and used to drive rewrites/eval instructions—so remote URLs are fetched at runtime and directly control prompts/instructions.

Issues (2)

W011
MEDIUM

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

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
May 8, 2026, 09:27 AM
Issues
2
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