exa-search
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 12, 2026
Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill includes shell functions (
exa_rpc,exa_init,exa_call) that usecurl,jq,awk, andsedto interact with the Exa MCP endpoint. These commands are necessary for the skill's function of communicating with the search API and parsing server-sent events. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The documentation references specific versions and SHA-256 integrity hashes for the
exa-mcp-serverNPM package and its corresponding GitHub repository. These references target a well-known service provider and demonstrate best practices for verifying external dependencies. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill possesses a surface for indirect prompt injection as it ingests data from the public web.
- Ingestion points: External content is retrieved via the
web_search_exaandweb_fetch_exatools as described inSKILL.md. - Boundary markers: The "Research Practice" section instructs the agent to filter and summarize results rather than providing raw data, which acts as a basic oversight mechanism.
- Capability inventory: The skill uses network communication to the Exa API and local shell utilities for data transformation.
- Sanitization: There is no explicit description of structural sanitization or safety filtering for the content returned by the search tools.
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