tdg-personal/deep-research
Multi-source deep research using firecrawl and exa MCPs. Searches the web, synthesizes findings, and delivers cited reports with source attribution. Use when the user wants thorough research on any topic with evidence and citations.
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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's workflow (SKILL.md Step 3 "Execute Multi-Source Search" and Step 4 "Deep-Read Key Sources") explicitly uses MCPs like firecrawl and exa to search the open web and scrape arbitrary URLs (firecrawl_scrape, crawling_exa), causing the agent to ingest untrusted third-party content that can influence its decisions and outputs.
Where we found it
arbitrary web pages fetched via firecrawl MCP
content-type · 2 sites
The plugin instructs the agent to search the open web via firecrawl_search and scrape arbitrary URLs via firecrawl_scrape, ingesting untrusted third-party web content that directly influences the agent's synthesized report.
SKILL.md
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firecrawl_search(query: "<sub-question keywords>", limit: 8)
SKILL.md
74
firecrawl_scrape(url: "<url>")
arbitrary web pages fetched via exa MCP
content-type · 3 sites
The plugin instructs the agent to search the open web via web_search_exa/web_search_advanced_exa and scrape arbitrary URLs via crawling_exa, ingesting untrusted third-party web content that directly influences the agent's synthesized report.
SKILL.md
58
web_search_exa(query: "<sub-question keywords>", numResults: 8)
SKILL.md
59
web_search_advanced_exa(query: "<keywords>", numResults: 5, startPublishedDate: "2025-01-01")
SKILL.md
79
crawling_exa(url: "<url>", tokensNum: 5000)
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 explicitly fetches and scrapes arbitrary external webpages at runtime via calls like firecrawl_scrape(url: "<url>") and crawling_exa(url: "<url>"), and those fetched URLs (the "<url>" results returned by searches) are injected into the agent context and used to drive prompts, so external web content is a required runtime dependency that can directly control the agent.
Where we found it
firecrawl
dependency · 3 sites
The plugin requires the firecrawl MCP as a hosted remote service invoked at runtime to search and scrape web content; this is an unverifiable external dependency.
SKILL.md
22
- **firecrawl** — `firecrawl_search`, `firecrawl_scrape`, `firecrawl_crawl`
SKILL.md
53
firecrawl_search(query: "<sub-question keywords>", limit: 8)
SKILL.md
74
firecrawl_scrape(url: "<url>")
exa
dependency · 4 sites
The plugin requires the exa MCP as a hosted remote service invoked at runtime to search and crawl web content; this is an unverifiable external dependency.
SKILL.md
23
- **exa** — `web_search_exa`, `web_search_advanced_exa`, `crawling_exa`
SKILL.md
58
web_search_exa(query: "<sub-question keywords>", numResults: 8)
SKILL.md
59
web_search_advanced_exa(query: "<keywords>", numResults: 5, startPublishedDate: "2025-01-01")
SKILL.md
79
crawling_exa(url: "<url>", tokensNum: 5000)
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