ship-spec
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 18, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill requires the installation of third-party software from sources not included in the trusted vendors list.
- Evidence includes instructions to run
npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skillsandcodex plugin add ponytail@ponytail. - Directs users to external installation instructions at
https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail#install. - [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill facilitates the execution of remote code by instructing the user (or the agent on behalf of the user) to fetch and install external packages.
- Specifically uses
npx skills@latestwhich downloads and executes packages from the npm registry. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill makes extensive use of local shell commands to interact with the environment and external services.
- Uses
gh api --paginateto interact with GitHub's REST API. - Uses
gitfor branch management (git checkout,git push). - Executes
npxandcodexcommands for plugin management. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill has a significant attack surface for indirect prompt injection as it ingests and processes untrusted data from external issue trackers.
- Ingestion points: Fetches full issue bodies and comments from a configured tracker (e.g., GitHub Issues) using
gh api. - Boundary markers: Absent. The prompts passed to subagents (e.g., the 'Implement' and 'Review' briefs) do not include delimiters or instructions to disregard malicious content embedded within the work items or specs.
- Capability inventory: The skill possesses capabilities for shell command execution (
git,gh,npx), subagent spawning, and modification of the repository (commits, branch pushes, PR creation). - Sanitization: Absent. There is no evidence of filtering or escaping the text retrieved from issue comments before it is interpolated into the prompts for subagents.
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