subagent-research-reliability

Fail

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Aug 31, 2026

Risk Level: HIGHPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONPROMPT_INJECTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
  • [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill explicitly instructs agents to perform a 'BOUNDED WRITE ESCALATION'. It provides a prompt template designed to persuade the AI to write to an absolute path outside the repository to bypass 'read-only' system constraints.
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill uses specific override markers such as 'BOUNDED WRITE ESCALATION, this segment only' to bypass configured environment restrictions. This acts as a functional jailbreak against platform-imposed read-only protections.
  • [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The instructions direct agents to read sensitive files located in the user's home directory, specifically '~/.claude/agents/X.md'. Accessing configuration files outside the project scope facilitates the collection of system-level metadata.
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill's primary function is fetching and processing untrusted external content from the web and literature, creating a large attack surface for indirect injection.
  • Ingestion points: External data enters via the 'WebFetch' tool as described in Check 2 of SKILL.md.
  • Boundary markers: None identified. The skill suggests a 'verification subagent' as a logical check but does not provide technical instructions for using delimiters or boundary markers to isolate untrusted content.
  • Capability inventory: The skill environment includes 'SendMessage', 'WebFetch', 'Read', 'Grep', and 'Bash', combined with the suggested ability to write to absolute file paths.
  • Sanitization: There are no instructions for sanitizing or escaping the content fetched from URLs before it is re-processed by the agent or included in messages.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill encourages the automated execution of shell commands, such as 'grep', based on locators (file paths and line numbers) provided by untrusted subagents that have fetched external data.
Recommendations
  • AI detected serious security threats
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
HIGH
Analyzed
Aug 31, 2026, 09:17 PM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — subagent-research-reliability