chronicle
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jul 29, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONPROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill requires the agent to perform an "escalated, read-only host process check" to verify the PID of the
codex_chronicleexecutable found in$TMPDIR/codex_chronicle/chronicle-started.pid. Operations requiring escalated permissions are high-risk. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill accesses highly sensitive user privacy data, including a rolling buffer of screen recordings and OCR text history located in
$TMPDIR/chronicle/screen_recording/and~/.codex/memories/extensions/chronicle/. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The agent is instructed to extract document identifiers (such as Google Doc IDs) from screen captures to trigger external connectors, creating a mechanism where sensitive data from the screen buffer can be passed to third-party services.
- [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is susceptible to indirect prompt injection because it ingests and processes untrusted data from the user's screen captures and OCR logs.
- Ingestion points: Screen recording JPEG frames and append-only OCR history files (
.ocr.jsonl) in$TMPDIR/chronicle/screen_recording/. - Boundary markers: Absent; there are no instructions for the agent to use delimiters or ignore embedded commands within the processed screen data.
- Capability inventory: File system access, text search using
rg, escalated process verification, and the ability to trigger external app connectors. - Sanitization: No validation or sanitization is performed on the text extracted from images before it is used to drive further agent actions.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill references technical documentation and original implementation details hosted on OpenAI's official GitHub repository (
https://github.com/openai/codex).
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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