tdg-personal/exa-search
Neural search via Exa MCP for web, code, and company research. Use when the user needs web search, code examples, company intel, people lookup, or AI-powered deep research with Exa's neural search engine.
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Impact
Pending
No eval scenarios have been run
Advisory
Suggest reviewing before use
Security
2 findings — 2 medium severity. This skill can be installed but you should review these findings before use.
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
Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The SKILL.md explicitly describes tools (web_search_exa and get_code_context_exa) that perform live web searches and fetch content from public sites (e.g., GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, and arbitrary web pages) which the agent is expected to read and use to drive research and follow-up actions, exposing it to untrusted third-party content that could inject instructions.
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
Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill's MCP requirement runs "npx exa-mcp-server" at runtime, which fetches and executes remote npm package code (and points to https://exa.ai for the API key), so the exa-mcp-server package is a required external runtime dependency that executes remote code and can control agent behavior.
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- Security analysis