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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1 critical severity finding. 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
Presents a high-risk pattern: the package lists a direct curl|bash install from https://parallel.ai/install.sh (piping a remote shell script into bash), which is an untrusted executable download vector that can distribute malware; the other URLs are academic or API endpoints and are low risk.
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
The skill ingests outsider-authored free text at runtime via `parallel-cli search` and subsequent `parallel-cli extract`/screening of abstracts/full text from URLs found during the search workflow, meaning attacker-controlled content can be fetched and then read by the LLM for synthesis and citation verification.
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 skill instructs installing code via curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash (which fetches and executes remote code) and calls the OpenRouter API at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 at runtime to generate and review images whose responses are parsed and used to modify/generate subsequent prompts, so both URLs are runtime external dependencies that can execute code or directly control agent prompts.
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