Medium Risk
Organized research and knowledge management for agents. Use when you need to structure, store, retrieve, and export research notes across topics. Supports adding notes with tags, listing topics, searching across all notes, and exporting to markdown. Security: file exports are restricted to safe directories only (workspace, home, /tmp). Perfect for multi-session projects, tracking ideas, and maintaining structured knowledge.
H:3 D:4 A:1 C:1
⚠️ Hazard Flags
PERSISTENCE FS_READ_WORKSPACE FS_READ_USER FS_WRITE_WORKSPACE FS_WRITE_USER FS_WRITE_SYSTEM CREDS_FILES
📋 Capabilities
Execution
- ❌ Shell execution
- ❌ Code execution
- ❌ Install dependencies
- ✅ Persistence
- Privilege: user
Filesystem
- ✅ Read workspace
- ✅ Write workspace
- ✅ Read home
- ✅ Write home
- ❌ Read system
- ❌ Delete
Network
- Egress: none
- ❌ Ingress
Credentials
- ❌ Environment vars
- ✅ Credential files
- ❌ Browser data
- ❌ Keychain
Actions
❌ send messages❌ post public❌ purchase❌ transfer money❌ deploy❌ delete external
🔒 Containment
Level: maximum
Recommended:
- LOG_ACTIONS: Audit trail for all actions
⚡ Risks
SSH key access patterns in: SKILL.md high
Mitigation: Verify legitimate need for SSH access. Consider sandboxing.
Social engineering indicators: SOCIAL_ENG_VAGUE_DESCRIPTION low
Mitigation: Provide clear, detailed description of skill functionality
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Kill switch: Stop the agent process
Containment: Review logs for unexpected actions
Recovery: Depends on skill capabilities
📄 Raw SSDS JSON click to expand
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"meta": {
"document_id": "ssds:auto:research-assistant:1.0.1",
"ssds_version": "0.2.0",
"scanner_version": "0.4.0+fe6fd9123d50",
"created_at": "2026-03-05T10:44:04.103Z",
"created_by": {
"agent": "safeagentskills-cli/generate-ssds"
},
"language": "en",
"notes": "Auto-generated SSDS. Manual review recommended."
},
"skill": {
"name": "Research Assistant",
"version": "1.0.1",
"format": "agent_skill",
"description": "Organized research and knowledge management for agents. Use when you need to structure, store, retrieve, and export research notes across topics. Supports adding notes with tags, listing topics, searching across all notes, and exporting to markdown. Security: file exports are restricted to safe directories only (workspace, home, /tmp). Perfect for multi-session projects, tracking ideas, and maintaining structured knowledge.",
"publisher": "ClawHub",
"source": {
"channel": "clawhub",
"slug": "research-assistant",
"owner": "johstracke",
"downloads": 1530,
"stars": 2
},
"artifact": {
"sha256": "01ce2fc5f45a4da73837b471c355c7e7fbed7729ddf3b8a64faebfd73048f372",
"hash_method": "files_sorted"
}
},
"capabilities": {
"execution": {
"can_exec_shell": false,
"can_exec_code": false,
"privilege_level": "user",
"can_install_deps": false,
"can_persist": true
},
"filesystem": {
"reads_workspace": true,
"reads_user_home": true,
"reads_system": false,
"writes_workspace": true,
"writes_user_home": true,
"writes_system": true,
"can_delete": false
},
"network": {
"egress": "none",
"ingress": false
},
"credentials": {
"reads_env_vars": false,
"reads_credential_files": true,
"reads_browser_data": false,
"reads_keychain": false
},
"services": [],
"actions": {
"can_send_messages": false,
"can_post_public": false,
"can_purchase": false,
"can_transfer_money": false,
"can_deploy": false,
"can_delete_external": false
},
"prompt_injection_surfaces": [],
"content_types": [
"general"
]
},
"hazards": {
"hdac": {
"H": 3,
"D": 4,
"A": 1,
"C": 1
},
"flags": [
"PERSISTENCE",
"FS_READ_WORKSPACE",
"FS_READ_USER",
"FS_WRITE_WORKSPACE",
"FS_WRITE_USER",
"FS_WRITE_SYSTEM",
"CREDS_FILES"
],
"custom_flags": [
{
"code": "CRED_SSH",
"name": "SSH Key Access",
"description": "Accesses SSH keys in: SKILL.md"
},
{
"code": "PERSISTENCE",
"name": "Persistence Mechanism",
"description": "Creates scheduled tasks or startup entries in: SKILL.md, scripts/research_organizer.py"
},
{
"code": "SOCIAL_ENGINEERING",
"name": "Social Engineering Risk",
"description": "SOCIAL_ENG_VAGUE_DESCRIPTION: Skill description is too vague or missing"
}
],
"confidence": {
"level": "medium",
"basis": [
"static_analysis"
],
"notes": "Detected 3 security patterns (1 vendored rule hits). Review recommended."
},
"rationale": {
"H": "H3: Shell/code execution or persistence detected",
"D": "D4: Critical: Credential theft or data exfiltration",
"A": "A1: Local side effects only",
"C": "C1: General content"
}
},
"containment": {
"level": "maximum",
"required": [],
"recommended": [
{
"control": "LOG_ACTIONS",
"reason": "Audit trail for all actions"
}
],
"uncontained_risk": "Risk level depends on manual review of actual capabilities."
},
"risks": {
"risks": [
{
"risk": "SSH key access patterns in: SKILL.md",
"severity": "high",
"mitigation": "Verify legitimate need for SSH access. Consider sandboxing."
},
{
"risk": "Social engineering indicators: SOCIAL_ENG_VAGUE_DESCRIPTION",
"severity": "low",
"mitigation": "Provide clear, detailed description of skill functionality"
}
],
"limitations": [
"Static analysis only - runtime behavior not verified"
]
},
"incident_response": {
"kill_switch": [
"Stop the agent process"
],
"containment": [
"Review logs for unexpected actions"
],
"recovery": [
"Depends on skill capabilities"
]
},
"evidence": [
{
"evidence_id": "EV:file-1",
"type": "file_excerpt",
"title": "_meta.json",
"file_path": "_meta.json"
},
{
"evidence_id": "EV:file-2",
"type": "file_excerpt",
"title": "SKILL.md",
"file_path": "SKILL.md"
},
{
"evidence_id": "EV:file-3",
"type": "file_excerpt",
"title": "scripts/research_organizer.py",
"file_path": "scripts/research_organizer.py"
},
{
"evidence_id": "EV:cisco-1",
"type": "file_excerpt",
"title": "SOCIAL_ENG_VAGUE_DESCRIPTION [LOW] SKILL.md:1: ---",
"file_path": "SKILL.md"
}
]
}