parallel-deep-research
Fail
Audited by Snyk on May 7, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis
CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.
- Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 0.90). This is a direct link to an executable shell installer (install.sh) on an external domain — even if parallel.ai is a legitimate vendor, downloading-and-running remote .sh files is a common malware vector and should be treated as high risk unless you can verify the script contents, provenance, and signatures.
MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 1.00). This skill's required workflow (SKILL.md Step 1) runs "parallel-cli research" which explicitly fetches/aggregates public web content ("cached web data" and re-fetch fresher data) and returns reports the agent is expected to read/use, so untrusted third‑party pages could indirectly inject instructions.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill's setup step tells users to run curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash, which fetches and immediately executes remote code at runtime to install the required parallel-cli dependency, so external content can directly control execution.
Issues (3)
E005
CRITICALSuspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.
W011
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
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