External Transmission
Medium
- Category
- Data Exfiltration
- Content
### Step 1: Keyword Research (Ahrefs) Use Ahrefs to gather keyword data. Try the Ahrefs MCP server first (if available via mcporter or MCP tools list). If MCP is not available, fall back to the Ahrefs REST API at `https://api.ahrefs.com/v3` with `Authorization: Bearer $AHREFS_API_KEY`. Regardless of access method, gather data from these endpoints/capabilities:
- Confidence
- 97% confidence
- Finding
- The skill directs the agent to send potentially sensitive user- or workspace-derived research inputs to third-party services including Ahrefs, Exa, and Firecrawl. Even though this is functionally necessary for the skill, it is still an external data transmission risk because client names, competitor lists, seed keywords, and contextual data from local files may be disclosed to external providers without explicit minimization or consent boundaries.
