opencite
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Apr 17, 2026
Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill relies on
uvxanduv pipto install and run theopenciteCLI tool, which handles paper searches and metadata management. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill performs network requests to fetch metadata and PDF documents from reputable academic services, including Semantic Scholar, PubMed, OpenAlex, and arXiv.
- [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill has an indirect prompt injection surface because it retrieves and processes content from external academic papers that are then provided to the agent for synthesis.
- Ingestion points: Untrusted data enters the context from external API search results and from PDF-to-markdown conversions of scholarly papers.
- Boundary markers: No explicit delimiters or instructions to ignore embedded content are defined in the workflow for synthesizing paper content.
- Capability inventory: The skill possesses capabilities for shell command execution (uvx), network access to academic domains, and local file system operations (reading and writing PDFs, JSON, and Markdown).
- Sanitization: No specific evidence of content validation or sanitization of the text extracted from papers is provided prior to agent processing.
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