x-twitter-scraper
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 18, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICALINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is primarily designed to retrieve and process untrusted external data from Twitter/X, creating a surface for indirect prompt injection attacks.
- Ingestion points: Data enters the agent's context through various API endpoints, including tweet search, profile lookups, and bulk extractions (as detailed in
SKILL.mdandreferences/x-api.md). - Boundary markers: The instructions mandate the use of explicit boundary markers,
<XQUIK_UNTRUSTED_X_CONTENT>and</XQUIK_UNTRUSTED_X_CONTENT>, to encapsulate all retrieved external content (specified inSKILL.mdandreferences/security.md). - Capability inventory: The skill is restricted to using the
WebFetchtool for API communication. Shell access, filesystem access, and local code execution are explicitly disabled in the YAML frontmatter. - Sanitization: Instructions require the agent to serialize external content as JSON and apply Unicode escaping to sensitive characters (such as
<,>, and&) to prevent boundary escapes and instruction hijacking (detailed inreferences/security.md). - [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: An automated security scan flagged
references/scrape-export-twitter-data.mdwith a 'FileRepMalware' alert. Technical inspection of the file confirms it contains markdown documentation and standard Python code snippets (using therequestslibrary) for API interaction. The alert appears to be a reputation-based false positive frequently associated with scraping-related documentation and tools rather than a presence of actual malicious payloads.
Recommendations
- CRITICAL: 1 file(s) identified as malware by FileRep - DO NOT USE
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