claude-peers-mcp-inter-instance-messaging
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 16, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONPERSISTENCE
Full Analysis
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill requires the user to clone and execute code from an unverified third-party GitHub repository (
github.com/louislva/claude-peers-mcp). This involves runningbun installand executing TypeScript files directly, which can lead to arbitrary code execution on the host machine. - [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The installation instructions explicitly direct the user to run the agent with the
--dangerously-skip-permissionsflag. This flag disables the primary security mechanism of the agent (human-in-the-loop confirmation for tool use), allowing the agent to perform potentially destructive actions without user oversight. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill creates a vector for indirect prompt injection by allowing instances to receive messages from other peers.
- Ingestion points: Messages arrive via the
send_messagetool and are pushed to the agent's context via theclaude/channelprotocol. - Boundary markers: There are no boundary markers or instructions to ignore embedded commands within the incoming messages.
- Capability inventory: The host agent (Claude Code) has full access to the filesystem and terminal execution.
- Sanitization: There is no evidence of sanitization for incoming message content, meaning a malicious peer could potentially send instructions that the receiving agent might execute.
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: If an
OPENAI_API_KEYis configured, the skill automatically generates and sends project summaries to OpenAI. These summaries include sensitive information such as working directories, git branches, recent commits, and modified file names. - [PERSISTENCE]: The skill instructs the user to modify shell configuration files (
~/.bashrcor~/.zshrc) to create persistent aliases. Additionally, the MCP server is registered with a--scope userflag, ensuring it is loaded in every future session of the agent.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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