huggingface-local-models
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Aug 24, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [METADATA_POISONING]: The skill's metadata contains deceptive information regarding its origin. The frontmatter claims the source repository is
huggingface/skillsand the source type isofficial, which contradicts the actual author identity. This misrepresentation could lead users to misjudge the safety and authority of the skill's instructions. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill ingests untrusted data from an external API and uses it to construct shell commands, creating a potential command injection surface.
- Ingestion points: The skill retrieves file lists and names from the Hugging Face Tree API (
https://huggingface.co/api/models/<repo>/tree/main?recursive=true) as described inreferences/hub-discovery.md. - Boundary markers: Absent. There are no instructions or delimiters to ensure the agent ignores or sanitizes malicious content within the fetched filenames.
- Capability inventory: The skill instructs the execution of shell commands using
llama-cli,llama-server, andllama-quantizeacross several files. - Sanitization: Absent. The instructions direct the agent to use the
pathfield from the API response directly in command arguments (e.g.,--hf-file <filename.gguf>) without validation or escaping logic. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill makes extensive use of shell commands for software installation (
brew,winget), repository cloning, and running local servers. While these are appropriate for the skill's stated purpose, they represent a significant capability tier that could be exploited via the indirect injection surface noted above. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill downloads software and configuration from external sources.
- Fetches the
llama.cppsource code from its official repository on GitHub. - Downloads model checkpoints and configuration files from Hugging Face.
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