delegating-to-agents
Warn
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 bypassPermissionsfor Claude Code, which allows the tool to execute actions without requesting user approval. - Recommends
codex --yolofor 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 sendto 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, andclaude). - 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: criticalfield. While this may be a legitimate warning by the author, metadata fields are used to influence agent perception of its own safety and capabilities.
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