teach-from-paper
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 9, 2026
Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill instructs the agent to use the
Bashtool to executepdftotextfor PDF processing. The user-provided file path ($0) is interpolated directly into the command string:pdftotext "$0" "$TMP". While this is a common utility for the stated purpose, using shell commands with user-supplied arguments is a pattern that requires careful handling by the agent to prevent command injection. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to read external research papers (PDF, LaTeX, Markdown) end-to-end and process their content to create outlines and summaries.
- Ingestion points: The full content of the file at the path provided in
$0is read into the agent's context window. - Boundary markers: The instructions do not specify any delimiters or safety warnings to ignore instructions that might be embedded within the research paper text.
- Capability inventory: The skill has access to powerful tools including
Read,Write, andBash, which could be abused if the agent follows malicious instructions hidden in the ingested paper. - Sanitization: The skill includes basic sanitization for the output filename (
[sanitized-title]), but does not define sanitization or filtering for the paper's content before interpolation into the prompt.
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