skill-news-intelligence
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 16, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill's primary function is to aggregate and summarize news from external RSS feeds and websites. This creates a surface for indirect prompt injection attacks, where a malicious or compromised news source could include hidden instructions designed to influence the agent's behavior during the briefing generation phase.\n
- Ingestion points:
scripts/fetch_news.pyandscripts/rss_parser.pyingest data from multiple external domains including36kr.com,api-one.wallstcn.com,i.news.qq.com, and several RSS feeds.\n - Boundary markers: There are no explicit boundary markers or instructions to the agent to ignore embedded commands within the fetched data.\n
- Capability inventory: The skill possesses the capability to execute its own Python scripts which perform network GET requests and write output files to the local file system.\n
- Sanitization: The scripts use
BeautifulSoupto extract plain text from HTML content, which removes markup but does not filter for instructional language that might manipulate the agent.\n- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill relies on the agent executing local Python scripts (scripts/fetch_news.py,scripts/daily_briefing.py) to perform its core operations. These scripts have the permission to make network requests and modify the local file system by saving reports.\n- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches data from several external news platforms and RSS feeds, such as 36kr, Wall Street CN, and Tencent News. While these are well-known and reputable Chinese news services, they are external dependencies for the content.\n- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Inscripts/rss_parser.py, thefetch_rss_feedfunction usesverify=Falsein therequests.getcall. This explicitly disables SSL certificate verification, making the connection vulnerable to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.
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