ascii-art

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 21, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill instructs the installation of standard, well-known CLI utilities and Python packages including pyfiglet, cowsay, boxes, and ascii-image-converter. These are widely used tools for terminal art and do not represent a security risk when installed via official package managers (apt, brew, pip).
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill uses curl to interact with several well-known public services for ASCII art, weather, and QR codes (e.g., wttr.in, qrenco.de, asciified.thelicato.io). These operations are used solely to fetch displayable text content.
  • [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: Automated scans flagged a pattern involving curl and a Python snippet for the site ascii.co.uk. Analysis confirms this is not remote code execution; the curl command downloads a static HTML page of text art to a temporary file, and the subsequent Python script is a local parser provided within the skill to extract the art from HTML tags. This is a safe, documented method for fetching pre-made ASCII art.
  • [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The instructions include the use of sudo apt install for Linux users. This is standard procedure for installing system utilities and is appropriate given the context of setting up CLI tools.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Sep 21, 2026, 09:31 PM