news-scrap

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Apr 3, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEPROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSDATA_EXFILTRATION
Full Analysis
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill exhibits an attack surface for indirect prompt injection because it processes untrusted data from external websites.
  • Ingestion points: Article text is extracted from arbitrary URLs discovered via search results in scripts/extract.py and subsequently processed by the agent or NotebookLM.
  • Boundary markers: There are no explicit instructions or delimiters used to warn the agent to ignore potentially malicious instructions embedded within the scraped article content.
  • Capability inventory: The agent has the ability to execute shell scripts and perform network operations, which could be abused if an injected instruction is obeyed.
  • Sanitization: Although the skill uses HTML escaping for its final dashboard output, no sanitization or instruction-filtering is applied to the raw text before it is analyzed by the language model.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill relies on the execution of bundled Python scripts to perform its core tasks.
  • Evidence: SKILL.md instructs the agent to run scripts/extract.py, scripts/render_dashboard.py, and scripts/slide.py as part of the primary workflow.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill performs automated downloads from various external news sites and academic journals.
  • Evidence: scripts/extract.py uses the trafilatura and playwright libraries to fetch content from URLs provided by the agent's search tools.
  • [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: Extracted content is transmitted to an external service for processing.
  • Evidence: The workflow involves uploading collected article text to Google's NotebookLM service via the notebooklm-py library for summarization and analysis.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Apr 3, 2026, 05:41 AM