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Youtube Summary Skill

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill does what it says: it fetches a YouTube transcript, summarizes it, and optionally saves a Markdown file.

Reasonable to install if you are comfortable with the skill running uv, downloading or using youtube-transcript-api at runtime, and contacting YouTube transcript endpoints for videos you provide. Review the helper script first if dependency downloads or outbound transcript requests are sensitive in your environment.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • 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
Findings (1)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The skill invokes `uv` to install/use `youtube-transcript-api` and fetch YouTube transcripts, which necessarily performs outbound network access, but the skill metadata does not explicitly declare a corresponding permission. This creates a transparency and policy gap: users or security controls may underestimate the skill's external communication behavior, making review and enforcement harder.

VirusTotal

67/67 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.