instinct-import

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Audited by Snyk on Feb 27, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill explicitly fetches and parses instinct files from external URLs (e.g., "Fetch the instinct file (local path or URL)" and usage example "https://github.com/org/repo/instincts.yaml" / "community collections"), and those imported instincts are merged into the agent's stored instincts and can change behavior, so untrusted third-party content could inject instructions indirectly.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). At runtime the skill's CLI can fetch an "instinct" file from a remote URL (e.g., https://github.com/org/repo/instincts.yaml) or via the Skill Creator repo fetch (e.g., acme/webapp), and that fetched YAML directly modifies the agent's instincts (i.e., prompts/instructions), so remote content can control agent behavior.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Feb 27, 2026, 04:45 AM