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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 5, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
  • [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to ingest and process data from external URLs, including X (formerly Twitter) and general web pages. This creates a vulnerability surface for indirect prompt injection, where malicious instructions hidden in external content (such as web page metadata or social media posts) could attempt to influence the agent's downstream behavior.
  • Ingestion points: The scripts/capture_web_reference.py script fetches raw HTML and JSON from external URLs, and references/web-reference-ingestion.md provides instructions for broader web ingestion.
  • Boundary markers: The instructions include behavioral guidance to focus on mechanisms rather than labels, but lack strong technical delimiters for the ingested content.
  • Capability inventory: The skill can perform network operations (via requests), file system writes (writing reference files), and command execution (running the capture script).
  • Sanitization: The capture script uses BeautifulSoup and trafilatura for content extraction, providing some structural validation, but does not explicitly sanitize for natural language instructions.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill utilizes a custom Python script (scripts/capture_web_reference.py) and references external tools such as yt-dlp, gallery-dl, and playwright to download media and text content from the internet. While these are intended for research purposes, they involve connecting to and fetching data from arbitrary, user-supplied or discovered URLs.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The workflow involves the agent executing a local Python script (scripts/capture_web_reference.py) to perform its content capture tasks. The script takes user-supplied URLs as arguments, though it implements basic slugification for output file naming.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Oct 5, 2026, 01:13 PM