parallel-deep-research

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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jun 27, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill directly interpolates the user-supplied variable $ARGUMENTS into shell commands, such as parallel-cli research run "$ARGUMENTS". An attacker could provide input with malicious quoting or additional flags to manipulate the command's behavior. Although the execution environment is restricted to the parallel-cli binary by the allowed-tools manifest, argument injection remains a risk.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The documentation instructs users to update or install software via pipx upgrade parallel-web-tools and a platform-specific /parallel-setup command. These actions involve downloading and installing external code from the vendor's repositories.
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is susceptible to indirect prompt injection because it processes untrusted data retrieved from the internet.
  • Ingestion points: Web content is ingested via parallel-cli research run and parallel-cli research poll (Step 1 and Step 2).
  • Boundary markers: Absent. The skill does not implement delimiters or 'ignore' instructions for the data being researched.
  • Capability inventory: The skill has access to the filesystem (writing via -o in Step 2) and the parallel-cli toolset.
  • Sanitization: There is no evidence of sanitization for the executive summaries or markdown reports generated from external web sources before they are presented to the agent context.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Jun 27, 2026, 02:52 PM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — parallel-deep-research