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skills/smithery/ai/youtube/Gen Agent Trust Hub

youtube

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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Feb 17, 2026

Risk Level: HIGHDATA_EXFILTRATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • Data Exposure & Exfiltration (HIGH): The skill instructions require the user to move sensitive Google OAuth 2.0 credentials to a specific local path at ~/.config/youtube-skill/credentials.json. Storing secrets in predictable local paths increases the risk of exfiltration by other malicious processes or scripts.
  • Data Exposure & Exfiltration (MEDIUM): The skill provides tools to access private user information, including subscriptions, liked videos, and channel statistics, which could be exfiltrated if the script or the environment is compromised.
  • External Downloads (LOW): The skill requires the installation of external binaries uv and yt-dlp via Homebrew. While these are widely used tools, they remain external dependencies required for functionality.
  • Command Execution (LOW): The skill frequently executes a local script (youtube.py) using the uv run command. This represents a local code execution surface.
  • Indirect Prompt Injection (LOW): The skill ingests untrusted text data from YouTube video transcripts and user comments, which are vectors for indirect prompt injection. * Ingestion points: Video transcripts and comment threads retrieved via the script. * Boundary markers: No explicit delimiters or instructions to ignore embedded commands are documented in the skill logic. * Capability inventory: Subprocess execution and network communication via the YouTube API. * Sanitization: There is no evidence that the retrieved external content is sanitized or filtered before being processed by the agent.
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Audit Metadata
Risk Level
HIGH
Analyzed
Feb 17, 2026, 06:16 PM