autoresearch
Fail
Audited by Snyk on Mar 12, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis
CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.
- Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 0.80). Most URLs are reputable GitHub/X pages (low risk), but the presence of a direct install script (https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh) intended to be run via curl | sh from a third‑party domain is a high‑risk indicator, so the bundle should be treated as potentially unsafe until the script is inspected and verified.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The setup and install steps fetch and execute remote code at runtime — notably the installer run via "curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh" and the repository cloned from "https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch" (which provides train.py and other code the agent will run) — so these URLs provide remote code that is fetched and executed as required dependencies.
Issues (2)
E005
CRITICALSuspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
Audit Metadata