skills/tumf/skills/autoresearch-agent/Gen Agent Trust Hub

autoresearch-agent

Fail

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Mar 24, 2026

Risk Level: HIGHCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATION
Full Analysis
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The script scripts/autoresearch invokes the claude CLI using the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag. This flag is designed to suppress all user confirmation prompts for high-risk actions, including shell command execution, file modifications, and network requests.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill translates user-supplied subcommands and flags into a prompt for the sub-agent. Parameters such as --guard <cmd> (used in the fix subcommand) allow for the execution of arbitrary shell commands. Because permissions are skipped, these commands will run automatically without the user's knowledge or approval.
  • [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: By bypassing the security gates of the Claude CLI, the skill enables potential data exfiltration. A malicious prompt or a sub-task could use standard tools like curl or wget to transmit environment variables, credentials, or source code to external servers.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The environment variable CLAUDE_EXTRA_ARGS is appended to the command array without quoting (e.g., CMD+=($CLAUDE_EXTRA_ARGS)). This allows for flag injection into the claude process, which could be used to manipulate the sub-agent's behavior if the environment is compromised.
Recommendations
  • AI detected serious security threats
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
HIGH
Analyzed
Mar 24, 2026, 02:04 AM