hacker-news-scraper
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 2, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill fetches content from the external Hacker News Algolia API, which contains unmoderated, user-generated text (titles, story text, and comments).
- Ingestion points: The
search_hnfunction inscripts/search_hn.pyretrieves hits fromhn.algolia.comand includes fields liketitle,story_text, andcomment_textin the agent's context. - Boundary markers: There are no specific boundary markers or instructions to the agent to ignore potentially malicious instructions embedded within the fetched HN content.
- Capability inventory: The skill uses
requestsfor network access to the Algolia API and prints results tostdoutfor the agent to process. The underlying environment may have additional tools accessible to the agent. - Sanitization: No sanitization or filtering is performed on the
textortitlefields before they are output and read by the LLM, creating a surface for prompt injection attacks hidden in HN posts or comments.
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