literature-review
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. Creates professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple citation styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver, etc.).
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2 findings: 1 critical severity, 1 medium severity. Installing this skill is not recommended: please review these findings carefully if you do intend to do so.
E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.
What this means
Detected a suspicious URL in the skill instructions that could lead the agent to download and execute malicious scripts or binaries. This includes links to executables from untrusted sources, typosquatting of official packages, URL shorteners that obscure the destination, and personal file hosting services.
Why it was flagged
One URL is high-risk because it points to a direct shell installer (https://parallel.ai/install.sh) that is recommended to be piped to bash — a common and dangerous pattern for distributing malware; the other listed links are standard documentation or APIs.
W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.
What this means
The skill prompts the agent to compromise the security or integrity of the user’s machine by modifying system-level services or configurations, such as obtaining elevated privileges, altering startup scripts, or changing system-wide settings.
Why it was flagged
The skill explicitly instructs installing system-level software (curl | bash installer, apt-get/brew package installs) which modify the machine and typically require elevated privileges or run unreviewed remote install scripts, so it pushes actions that can change the host state.
Low
Low-risk findings.
2 low severity findings. Worth noting, but not necessarily harmful.
W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
What this means
The skill exposes the agent to untrusted, user-generated content from public third-party sources, creating a risk of indirect prompt injection. This includes browsing arbitrary URLs, reading social media posts or forum comments, and analyzing content from unknown websites.
Why it was flagged
SKILL.md requires runtime web fetching of outside-authored literature content via `parallel-cli search`/`parallel-cli extract` (URLs like arXiv/PubMed pages), which can yield free-form titles/abstracts/full-text excerpts that are then processed/aggregated for later LLM use; additionally, citation extraction/verification uses those text fields as input material.
W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
What this means
The skill fetches instructions or code from an external URL at runtime, and the fetched content directly controls the agent’s prompts or executes code. This dynamic dependency allows the external source to modify the agent’s behavior without any changes to the skill itself.
Why it was flagged
The scientific-schematics code calls the OpenRouter API (base_url "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1") at runtime to generate images and receive textual critiques which are parsed and used to modify/generate subsequent prompts, so external content directly controls agent prompts.
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- K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer
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- Security analysis
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