delegating-to-agents

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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 15, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUMPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONMETADATA_POISONING
Full Analysis
  • [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill instructs the agent to use specific command-line flags that bypass built-in security controls and human-in-the-loop permission prompts in sub-agents.
  • Recommends claude --permission-mode bypassPermissions for Claude Code, which allows the tool to execute actions without requesting user approval.
  • Recommends codex --yolo for the Codex CLI to enable autonomous command execution without verification.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill provides patterns for executing arbitrary commands on remote and local systems through orchestration tools.
  • Instructs the agent to SSH into remote VPS environments and launch autonomous agents locally on those boxes.
  • Details the use of cmux send to relay strings directly to terminal surfaces, which can be used to execute shell commands.
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: As an orchestration tool, the skill is designed to relay untrusted user data to other autonomous agents, creating a significant injection surface.
  • Ingestion points: Processes user-provided "work items" or "requests" and relays them to sub-agents (Codex, Pi, Claude, Hermes).
  • Boundary markers: Recommends wrapping prompts in plain double quotes but lacks robust delimiter instructions to prevent the sub-agent from misinterpreting the relayed data as instructions.
  • Capability inventory: The orchestrator can execute shell commands, manage files, and perform network operations via the sub-agents it controls (specifically mentioning cmux, ssh, and claude).
  • Sanitization: The skill lacks content sanitization; it explicitly advises against escaping characters (like quotes) for shell compatibility reasons, which may inadvertently allow shell injection if the relayed content is malicious.
  • [METADATA_POISONING]: The skill's YAML frontmatter includes a risk: critical field. While this may be a legitimate warning by the author, metadata fields are used to influence agent perception of its own safety and capabilities.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Oct 15, 2026, 01:54 AM