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YouTube Transcript Native Node

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed YouTube caption extractor that uses a local yt-dlp binary and temporary files without hidden persistence or credential access.

Install only if you are comfortable running your local yt-dlp binary against user-provided YouTube URLs. Review the yt-dlp source/installation path you trust, avoid using it for private or client-sensitive videos unless appropriate, and treat extracted transcripts as third-party copyrighted content.

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

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

Detected: suspicious.dangerous_exec

Shell command execution detected (child_process).

Critical
Code
suspicious.dangerous_exec
Location
scripts/fetch.mjs:156

Shell command execution detected (child_process).

Critical
Code
suspicious.dangerous_exec
Location
scripts/self-test.mjs:21