ai-news
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Mar 9, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEPROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes untrusted data from external sources, which creates a potential surface for indirect prompt injection where instructions could be embedded in news articles or forum posts.
- Ingestion points: Fetches search results from Brave Search (Step 1) and Hacker News stories via the Algolia API (Step 2).
- Boundary markers: The skill does not define specific delimiters (e.g., XML tags or clear separators) to encapsulate external content and distinguish it from the agent's instructions.
- Capability inventory: The skill is restricted to summarization, categorization, and presentation; no capabilities for file system modification, network exfiltration of local data, or arbitrary code execution were identified.
- Sanitization: No explicit instructions are provided to sanitize, filter, or escape potentially malicious text patterns within the fetched news items.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill retrieves data from well-known external sources to provide news updates.
- Fetches community-voted news stories and metadata from the Hacker News Algolia search API.
- Performs targeted searches using Brave Search to identify recent AI industry developments across the web.
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