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Gemini Yt Video Transcript

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill does what it claims: it uses Google Gemini to transcribe a user-provided YouTube video and saves the transcript locally.

Install only if you are comfortable providing a Gemini API key and sending the selected YouTube URL, and possibly the video title, to Google/YouTube services. Avoid private or sensitive videos unless that external processing and local transcript storage are acceptable.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
The skill sends user-supplied YouTube content/URL to Google Gemini, a third-party service, but the description does not clearly warn users about that data transfer. This creates a privacy and consent risk: users may provide private, sensitive, or unlisted video links without realizing the content is being processed externally.

VirusTotal

49/49 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.