news-aggregator-skill-3

Pass

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Mar 17, 2026

Risk Level: SAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (Category 8) as it is designed to fetch, summarize, and "deeply interpret" content from untrusted external sources.
  • Ingestion points: Untrusted article text is retrieved from arbitrary external URLs via the fetch_url_content function in scripts/fetch_news.py.
  • Boundary markers: The skill instructions lack explicit delimiters or safety instructions to prevent the agent from following malicious commands that might be embedded within the fetched news articles.
  • Capability inventory: The skill can perform outbound network requests and is instructed to write timestamped report files to the local reports/ directory.
  • Sanitization: While the script removes basic HTML tags like <script> and <style>, it does not perform semantic sanitization to neutralize potential prompt injection attacks contained within the article text.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The scripts/fetch_news.py script performs outbound HTTP GET requests to various external domains (e.g., news.ycombinator.com, github.com, weibo.com, 36kr.com) and follows links to arbitrary third-party websites to extract article content for deep analysis.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill relies on the execution of a Python script (scripts/fetch_news.py) and directs the agent to generate and save markdown reports into a local reports/ subdirectory, involving dynamic file path generation.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
SAFE
Analyzed
Mar 17, 2026, 07:05 AM