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
The bundle includes a direct installer script (https://parallel.ai/install.sh) invoked via "curl ... | bash", which is a high-risk executable distribution vector that can run arbitrary code; the other URLs are mostly academic resources or API endpoints and are not inherently suspicious.
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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 required workflow includes runtime web discovery and full-text extraction via `parallel-cli search` / `parallel-cli extract` (and potentially other public database scraping APIs), whose returned snippets/full text are then used to form LLM-readable content for summarization/synthesis—an outsider-authored free-text source path.
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's required CLI installation includes a curl | bash command that fetches and executes remote code from https://parallel.ai/install.sh, which is a runtime external dependency used to install the primary parallel-cli tool the skill relies on.
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