respond-to-referees

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Apr 18, 2026

Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill uses Bash to execute file conversion tools like pdftotext and pandoc. It provides command templates that interpolate user-supplied file paths (e.g., pdftotext "FILE" "$TMP"). If the agent executes these via a shell without rigorous sanitization of the input paths, a maliciously crafted filename (e.g., containing backticks or semicolons) could lead to arbitrary command execution.
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes untrusted data from external sources (referee reports and manuscripts) and grants the agent capabilities like Bash, Write, and Task. This creates a surface for indirect prompt injection where instructions hidden within the academic documents could influence the agent's behavior.
  • Ingestion points: Path parameters $0 (referee report) and $1 (revised manuscript) in SKILL.md used as input for parsing.
  • Boundary markers: The instructions do not define explicit boundary markers (like XML tags) or system-level warnings to ignore instructions found within the input files.
  • Capability inventory: The skill allows use of Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, and Task (used to spawn a claim-verifier subagent).
  • Sanitization: The skill recommends quoting file paths in shell commands to prevent simple path injection, but it does not sanitize or filter the content of the documents being processed.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Apr 18, 2026, 06:02 PM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — respond-to-referees