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.pyand 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.mdinstructs the agent to runscripts/extract.py,scripts/render_dashboard.py, andscripts/slide.pyas part of the primary workflow. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill performs automated downloads from various external news sites and academic journals.
- Evidence:
scripts/extract.pyuses thetrafilaturaandplaywrightlibraries 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-pylibrary for summarization and analysis.
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