codex
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 14, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONMETADATA_POISONINGINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill relies on executing the
codexcommand-line tool via Bash. This tool is not a standard system utility, and the skill provides instructions for passing arbitrary English prompts to it, which can result in the generation and execution of dangerous commands on the host system. - [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill documents and provides examples for using the
-s danger-full-accesssandbox mode and the-a neverapproval policy. As explicitly stated in the documentation, these settings remove all security restrictions and allow the tool to execute commands without user confirmation, effectively bypassing standard agent safety controls. - [METADATA_POISONING]: The skill metadata and instructions claim to use "GPT-5.3-codex", "o3", and "o4-mini" models. These models are non-existent in the current public AI ecosystem, suggesting intentional deception or misrepresentation of the tool's backend capabilities.
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to ingest project context and files to be processed by an external CLI tool, creating a vulnerability where malicious instructions hidden in processed data could influence the agent's behavior.
- Ingestion points: The skill reads project files, code snippets, and UI mockups to construct prompts for the CLI tool (SKILL.md, Step 2 and Step 4).
- Boundary markers: The skill does not employ programmatic delimiters to separate untrusted file content from the delegation instructions.
- Capability inventory: The skill has access to Bash execution, file reading, and file writing tools.
- Sanitization: While the instructions advise treating Codex output as untrusted, there is no automated sanitization or filtering of the content being sent to or received from the CLI tool.
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