article-extractor

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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 15, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The provided bash scripts interpolate the user-supplied $ARTICLE_URL variable directly into shell commands (e.g., reader "$ARTICLE_URL"). This pattern creates a risk of command injection if the agent does not sanitize the input URL for shell metacharacters before execution.- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill's primary function is to ingest and display untrusted data from external websites, creating a surface for indirect prompt injection.
  • Ingestion points: External content is fetched from arbitrary URLs in SKILL.md using curl, reader, or trafilatura.
  • Boundary markers: No delimiters or safety instructions are used to distinguish external content from agent instructions.
  • Capability inventory: The skill utilizes Bash and Write tools to execute commands and modify the file system.
  • Sanitization: The extracted article text is saved and previewed without any sanitization or filtering of potentially malicious instructions embedded in the source webpage.- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill references and facilitates the installation of the @mozilla/readability-cli Node.js package and the trafilatura Python package from official registries.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Sep 15, 2026, 06:45 AM