codex
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 14, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONMETADATA_POISONINGOBFUSCATIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill instructs the agent to construct shell commands by piping user-provided prompts directly into a CLI tool (e.g.,
echo "prompt" | codex exec). This pattern is vulnerable to shell injection if the agent does not properly escape metacharacters in the user input.\n- [METADATA_POISONING]: The skill's documentation and instructions reference non-existent AI models (such as GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.1-thinking) and cites unverified performance statistics (e.g., 76.3% SWE-bench). This deceptive metadata can lead to misplaced trust in the tool's capabilities.\n- [OBFUSCATION]: The skill mandates the use of2>/dev/nullin CLI commands to suppress stderr output. This practice hides internal process information, errors, and warnings from the user and the agent's monitoring interface.\n- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The instructions promote the use of adanger-full-accesssandbox mode for the external CLI, which grants the tool broad system and network permissions, increasing the potential impact of a compromise.\n- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill ingests untrusted user prompts and potentially external code to pass to the CLI.\n - Ingestion points: User prompts and repository code in
SKILL.md.\n - Boundary markers: Absent; the skill does not use delimiters to isolate untrusted data.\n
- Capability inventory: Shell command execution via
codex exec(found inSKILL.md).\n - Sanitization: Absent; no escaping or validation of inputs before piping to the CLI.\n- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The installation instructions in
README.mdreference cloning the skill repository from GitHub.
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