exa-search
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 26, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to search and extract content from the public web, which constitutes a surface for indirect prompt injection attacks.
- Ingestion points: Data enters the agent context through search results, direct content extraction, and research reports fetched from the
api.exa.aiendpoints. - Boundary markers: The provided instructions do not specify explicit delimiters or 'ignore embedded instructions' warnings for the data returned by the API.
- Capability inventory: The skill utilizes
curlandjqto interact with the API and process data. - Sanitization: There is no evidence of sanitization or filtering of the external web content before it is processed by the agent.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill instructs the agent to use standard system utilities (
curl,jq) for API interaction and configuration management. - The shell commands are used to read and write a local configuration file at
~/.config/exa-search/config.jsonand to perform HTTP requests to the legitimateapi.exa.aiservice. - These operations are consistent with the skill's stated purpose and do not involve arbitrary code execution or unsafe user input interpolation.
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