run-deep-research
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jul 13, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHCOMMAND_EXECUTIONREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONCREDENTIALS_UNSAFEPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill executes shell commands to trigger research waves via the
codexCLI. Technical details inreferences/codex/codex-exec-contract.mdspecify the invocation ofcodex execwith the flag--dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox. This flag is explicitly used to circumvent sandboxing and approval prompts, which are fundamental security controls for sub-processes. - [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: Research tasks are dispatched to external executors that process untrusted data from the internet. Executing these tasks in un-sandboxed environments, as encouraged by the skill's technical documentation, represents a high-severity security risk.
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill's architecture uses the local filesystem as a context channel, reading files from the workspace and passing them as input to research jobs that have network access. This creates potential pathways for sensitive data to be exfiltrated to external domains.
- [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: Technical references in
references/codex/codex-exec-contract.mddescribe accessing sensitive authentication paths, including~/.codex/auth.jsonand~/.codex/config.toml, to verify tool authorization status. - [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill ingests untrusted data from the web, creating a surface for indirect prompt injection attacks. 1. Ingestion points: Scraped content from the web and Reddit processed during research waves (
references/subagent-briefs.md). 2. Boundary markers: Briefs define explicit input/output paths and use a seven-section prompt skeleton (references/codex/codex-prompt-skeleton.md). 3. Capability inventory: The skill possesses the ability to spawn subagents, execute shell commands, and runcodex execsubprocesses with network and filesystem access. 4. Sanitization: The skill relies on LLM-driven citation discipline and synthesis protocols (references/synthesis.md) rather than automated sanitization or filtering. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill includes a shell script
scripts/init-corpus.shand a Ruby snippet inreferences/industry/industry-architecture.mdintended for execution by the agent to perform environment scaffolding and link validation tasks.
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- AI detected serious security threats
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