skills/okou-ai/okou-skills/rss-fetch/Gen Agent Trust Hub

rss-fetch

Fail

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 23, 2026

Risk Level: HIGHEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill fetches content from external RSS/Atom feeds, which serves as a potential surface for indirect prompt injection if the feed content is malicious.
  • Ingestion points: Data is ingested from various external URLs via curl in SKILL.md, including Hacker News, Reddit, and TechCrunch.
  • Boundary markers: There are no explicit boundary markers or instructions to the agent to isolate the fetched content from its own instructions.
  • Capability inventory: The skill utilizes shell utilities such as xmllint, grep, awk, and tr for parsing and formatting.
  • Sanitization: The skill does not perform sanitization of the fetched text (titles, descriptions, links) before processing it.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill uses shell commands to interact with the web and process data.
  • Uses curl to fetch XML and Atom data from remote URLs.
  • Uses xmllint to parse and query XML data via XPath.
  • Uses standard text processing tools like awk, grep, and tr to manipulate the feed output.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches content from multiple external domains to retrieve news feeds.
  • Retrieves data from well-known services and platforms such as Hacker News (hnrss.org), TechCrunch (techcrunch.com), Ars Technica (arstechnica.com), and Reddit (reddit.com).
  • Fetches blog updates from GitHub's official feeds.
Recommendations
  • HIGH: Downloads and executes remote code from: https://hnrss.org/frontpage - DO NOT USE without thorough review
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
HIGH
Analyzed
Sep 23, 2026, 05:06 PM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — rss-fetch