Security audit
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
This paper-comparison skill is mostly coherent, but it instructs agents to persist detailed research history without clear user consent, retention limits, or deletion guidance.
Review this skill before installing if your paper choices, research goals, or comparison notes could be sensitive. The web/API retrieval behavior fits the tool, but the history feature should ideally be opt-in, minimized, and paired with clear deletion or retention controls.
Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
│ └── "Please narrow to 2-5 for meaningful comparison"
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├── DOI ──→ Fetch via crossref/semantic scholar
│ └── https://api.crossref.org/works/{doi}
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├── URL ──→ Fetch via web_fetch
│ └── Extract title, authors, abstract
Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
Use Semantic Scholar API:
https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/{doi}?fields=citationCount
The skill explicitly instructs saving comparison history including user_goal, paper identifiers, topic, comparison angle, verdict, and methodology details to persistent storage, but it provides no user-facing notice, consent step, retention limit, or opt-out. Even though this is research-oriented data rather than obviously secret material, it can still expose sensitive research interests, unpublished work, or proprietary investigation topics if later accessed, leaked, or reused unexpectedly.
The history design encourages broad, indefinite retention of structured research context without sensitivity filtering or data minimization. Storing titles, DOIs, URLs, goals, comparison angles, verdicts, and extracted dimensions creates a durable record of user behavior that could reveal confidential research plans, competitive analysis, or regulated subject matter, especially when combined with memory_search for later retrieval.
No suspicious patterns detected.