skills/nousresearch/hermes-agent/xurl/Gen Agent Trust Hub

xurl

Fail

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 14, 2026

Risk Level: HIGHREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill's installation documentation includes a command to download and execute a shell script directly from a remote GitHub repository.
  • Evidence: The command curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xdevplatform/xurl/main/install.sh | bash is recommended for Linux and macOS installation in SKILL.md.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill suggests using external package managers to install the required CLI tool, fetching code from remote registries.
  • Evidence: Installation instructions in SKILL.md include npm install -g @xdevplatform/xurl and go install github.com/xdevplatform/xurl@latest.
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes untrusted external data from the X platform, which could contain malicious instructions designed to influence the agent's behavior.
  • Ingestion points: Untrusted content enters the agent's context through search results, timeline retrieval, mentions, and direct messages, as described in SKILL.md.
  • Boundary markers: The skill lacks technical delimiters for external content in its execution logic, though SKILL.md provides instructional safety guidelines for the agent to confirm user intent before performing write operations.
  • Capability inventory: The skill possesses significant 'write' capabilities, including posting, replying, sending direct messages, and following or blocking accounts, which could be targeted by an injection attack.
  • Sanitization: While the tool returns structured JSON output, the underlying message content is processed by the LLM without specific sanitization against embedded instructions.
Recommendations
  • HIGH: Downloads and executes remote code from: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xdevplatform/xurl/main/install.sh - DO NOT USE without thorough review
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
HIGH
Analyzed
Sep 14, 2026, 07:28 PM