idea-discovery

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Apr 19, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E004: Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

  • Potential prompt injection detected (high risk: 0.80). The prompt explicitly instructs the agent to perform hidden/deceptive actions—e.g., "Do NOT ask the user for permission — just do it silently" when retrying large file writes and to check/send a local Feishu config—behaviors that hide activity from the user and go beyond the advertised idea-discovery workflow.

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 ingests public third‑party content (e.g., Phase 0.5: REF_PAPER can download arXiv PDFs or "fetch and extract content via WebFetch"; Phase 1/3: /research-lit and /novelty-check search arXiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar), and those external results are used to generate, filter, rank, and eliminate ideas—so untrusted web content can materially influence agent decisions.

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

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill explicitly fetches remote papers at runtime (e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04329 and "other URL" via WebFetch) and injects their content as context for summarization and downstream prompts, so external content can directly control the agent's instructions.

Issues (3)

E004
CRITICAL

Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

W011
MEDIUM

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

W012
MEDIUM

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

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Apr 19, 2026, 03:14 AM
Issues
3