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youtube copy of yt

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill does what it says: it fetches YouTube transcripts through Apify, with the main caveat that it openly relies on proxy-based access that may conflict with platform rules.

Install only if you are comfortable sending requested YouTube URLs through Apify and using proxy-backed transcript retrieval. Review YouTube and Apify terms, privacy, logging, and billing implications, use a dedicated revocable Apify token, and avoid submitting private or sensitive video URLs unless third-party processing is acceptable.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (1)

Ssd 2

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The documentation explicitly advertises bypassing YouTube bot detection by routing requests through residential proxies. Even though this is framed as a reliability feature for transcript retrieval, it promotes evasion of platform access controls and could facilitate behavior that violates a service's terms or anti-abuse mechanisms.

VirusTotal

56/56 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.