orca-ask
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 28, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill explicitly instructs the agent to circumvent platform security controls. It advises the agent that if a command is blocked by a sandbox (resulting in
runtime_access_denied), it should "re-run it with escalated permissions". This encourages the agent to seek higher privilege levels to bypass environment restrictions. - [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: The skill implements a pattern where the primary instructional logic is not contained within the skill file itself but is fetched dynamically at runtime. The agent is instructed to run
ORCA skills get orca-askto retrieve the "complete, version-matched guide" and then follow those instructions, which allows for the execution of instructions that were not present during the initial security review. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill requires the agent to execute shell commands using various local binaries (
orca,orca-ide,orca-dev) determined by environment variables likeORCA_CLI_COMMANDandORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill's core functionality is to ingest untrusted data from a human user through prompt windows (text, select, number). Since the agent is instructed to block and wait for these answers to determine its next actions, it creates a surface for indirect prompt injection where a user could provide instructions that override the agent's current task or exploit its command execution capabilities.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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