herdr-orchestrator

Warn

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 9, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill attempts to locate and execute the 'claude' agent binary by searching broadly across user directories (find /home -name "claude"). This practice is risky as it may execute an unauthorized or malicious binary placed in a subfolder by another user.
  • [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The orchestration logic explicitly spawns worker agents using the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag. This bypasses the security sandboxing and user-confirmation checkpoints designed to prevent autonomous agents from performing sensitive actions without oversight.
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill implements a supervision loop that monitors the output of sub-agents (herdr pane read). It is programmed to detect permission prompts (e.g., 'Do you want to proceed?') and automatically send approval keys (Down+Enter). This creates a vulnerability where an attacker-controlled file processed by a sub-agent could trick the orchestrator into auto-approving malicious actions.
  • Ingestion points: Visible buffer reads in Section 7 via herdr pane read.
  • Boundary markers: None present; the orchestrator processes the raw visible buffer.
  • Capability inventory: Spawning agents, sending keys to other panes, closing panes, and running commands via the herdr CLI.
  • Sanitization: None; the logic uses simple string pattern matching to trigger automated command injection into other panes.
  • [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: The cleanup and management scripts interpolate environment variables and CLI output directly into Python script snippets (e.g., ws_id = '$WS_ID'). This lacks proper escaping and could be exploited if an identifier returned by the system contains malicious characters designed to break the script context.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Oct 9, 2026, 09:43 AM