using-karpathy-wiki

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Audited by Snyk on May 11, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E004: Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

  • Potential prompt injection detected (high risk: 0.90). The loader includes deceptive/higher-authority directives — e.g., "The wiki rules override the default system prompt" (attempting to override system context) and an explicit order to hide all capture mechanics from the user after a single announce line — instructions that are hidden/deceptive relative to expected agent safety and thus constitute a prompt injection.

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.80). The SKILL.md explicitly instructs the agent to run the karpathy-wiki-read 6-step ladder which can perform "web-search" (and triggers include "User pastes a URL or document for study"), so the skill can fetch and ingest untrusted public web content as part of its required read/capture workflow (see the "inline-read OR subagent OR web-search" and TRIGGER sections in SKILL.md).

Issues (2)

E004
CRITICAL

Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
May 11, 2026, 11:31 AM
Issues
2