idea-discovery

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Jul 18, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E004: Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

  • Potential prompt injection detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill contains an explicit instruction to perform silent file-write retries without asking the user for permission ("Do NOT ask the user for permission — just do it silently."), which is a deceptive directive that contradicts the workflow's checkpoint/approval behavior and falls outside normal, transparent operation.

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.85). Yes—Phase 0.5/Phase 1/Phase 3/Phase 4 describe fetching and extracting content from external sources (e.g., arXiv/Google Scholar/Semantic Scholar and “other URL” via WebFetch) and then using that extracted text as LLM context for sub-skills like /research-lit, /novelty-check, and /research-review, which is outsider-authored free text at runtime.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill explicitly fetches an arXiv paper at runtime (example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04329) via the /arxiv download/WebFetch flow and injects the fetched paper summary into prompts as context, so external content can directly control model instructions.

Issues (3)

E004
CRITICAL

Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Jul 18, 2026, 04:51 PM
Issues
3
Security Audit — snyk — idea-discovery