research-scout

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jun 28, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEPROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection because it ingests untrusted external content while possessing broad project-level permissions.
  • Ingestion points: The skill processes content from YouTube transcripts via the transcribe tool, as well as external articles, documentation, and GitHub repositories.
  • Boundary markers: The instructions lack specific delimiters or instructions to the agent to treat external content as untrusted or to disregard embedded instructions.
  • Capability inventory: The skill has permissions to read the entire project structure and source code, write report files, modify existing backlog files, and perform Git operations including checkout, commit, and push.
  • Sanitization: There is no mechanism described for sanitizing or filtering the external content before it is processed by the agent.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill utilizes shell commands and external tool invocations to fulfill its research and persistence tasks.
  • Evidence: It invokes the transcribe tool via Bash to fetch content from video URLs.
  • Evidence: It executes Git commands including git checkout, git add, git commit, and git push to save research results to the project repository.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches and analyzes content from arbitrary user-provided URLs.
  • Evidence: Phase 2 describes fetching and reading data from YouTube, articles, documentation, and GitHub repositories.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Jun 28, 2026, 12:23 PM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — research-scout