reddit-insights

Warn

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Mar 6, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUMEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill's installation guide instructs users to download and execute the reddit-insights-mcp package from the npm registry.
  • [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The configuration instructions specify the use of npx -y reddit-insights-mcp to run the MCP server. This pattern involves executing code fetched from a remote repository at runtime on the local machine.
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill functions by retrieving data from Reddit, which is a source of untrusted, user-generated content. This creates a surface for indirect prompt injection attacks where malicious instructions could be embedded in Reddit posts or comments.
  • Ingestion points: The tools reddit_search and reddit_get_subreddit pull text content directly from Reddit into the agent's context.
  • Boundary markers: The skill does not provide or suggest the use of delimiters or 'ignore' instructions to isolate the retrieved content from the agent's primary system instructions.
  • Capability inventory: While the skill itself is primarily instructional, the environment it configures (MCP servers) is designed to give the agent tool-execution capabilities.
  • Sanitization: There are no indicated mechanisms for sanitizing, filtering, or validating the content retrieved from the external Reddit API before it is processed by the agent.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Mar 6, 2026, 11:49 AM