Caveat verdict

google-scholar-search-skill

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🟢 Trusted
No high-risk patterns surfaced by the deep scan — automated capability review, not behavioral proof.

Academic paper search skill for Google Scholar with keyword, author, and year filters; no credentials required and only fetches publicly available academic metadata.

⚠ Flagged for review — coarse, uncorroborated signal, not a confirmed exploit. Review the config yourself before installing.

Automated static analysis — not a human review. Caveat flags capabilities, not confirmed intent, and can produce false positives. Disagree with this verdict? Use Dispute below.

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security
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transparency
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maintenance

Findings (2)

Pattern match critical

Pipe-to-shell pattern (curl | sh) — supply chain attack vector

README.md · code · curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Pattern match critical

Pipe to sh — executes piped content as shell commands

README.md · code · | sh

Why the tier is capped

Execution sink present in raw bytes (Hard Floor: class A). Final tier capped at Caution — cannot be lifted by any downgrade, example-payload opt-in, or allowlist.

Permissions & capabilities

No declared permissions — minimal attack surface.

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