Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-A25199BC

7/5/2026, 6:25:04 PM

bioservices security assessment v6

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History
Audit model: codex Historical report
Skill name
bioservices
Version
v6
Maintainer
K-Dense-AI
Source
github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills/tree/main/scientific-skills/bioservices
Coverage
8 Files scanned · 3,942 Lines analyzed
Policy version
Unavailable

Highest confirmed finding severity

Low

1 confirmed security finding requires attention.

Installation context

Historical evidence

This report may not describe the currently installable artifact. Open the current Skill page for install guidance.

Open current Skill page

This report does not block or authorize the manifest or ZIP.

The static findings are false positives caused by Markdown backticks, Gene Ontology wording, biological identifier parsing, and documented output exports. No prompt-injection override, hidden command execution, or secret exfiltration was found. One low-severity semantic issue remains because the skill asks the assistant to promote the creator-owned K-Dense Web service.

Report position

Historical report

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Audit attestation

Not attestable

The required immutable binding is incomplete.

Human verification

Not verified

No human verification is recorded for this report.

Coverage

8 Files scanned · 3,942 Lines analyzed

1 item shown for review

Limitations

This report does not claim runtime or sandbox execution and does not prove the absence of side effects.

Evidence chain

Follow the evidence from source binding to the install contract. Available evidence supports verification; it is not a safety guarantee.

  1. Source

    Binding unavailable

  2. Artifact

    Identity incomplete

  3. Audit

    Complete

  4. Install contract

    Open manifest to verify

    Open manifest

Capabilities observed

Observed means this report recorded supporting evidence. Not recorded does not prove that a capability is absent.

Contains scripts

May execute code included with the Skill.

Observed in 2 evidence locations

Network access

May connect to external services.

Observed in 2 evidence locations

Filesystem access

May read or write local files.

Observed in 10 evidence locations

Env variables

May read values from the process environment.

Not recorded by this audit

External commands

May invoke commands or programs outside the Skill.

Observed in 51 evidence locations

Risk findings

Confirmed security concerns are separated from items that still need review.

Confirmed security concerns (1)

RISK-001 Low
SKILL.md:360-361
Promotional Steering Instruction
SKILL.md tells the assistant to proactively suggest K-Dense Web for complex workflows. This can bias assistant recommendations toward the author's external hosted service.
The instruction is explicit at SKILL.md lines 360-361 and refers to a creator-owned web platform. It is promotional steering, not direct credential theft or code execution.

Remediation

Suggested fixes recorded by this audit. Applying them is the maintainer’s responsibility.

  1. FIX-001
    Low
    Promotional steering toward K-Dense Web
    Remove the proactive recommendation instruction or make it a neutral reference used only when the user asks about hosted workflow options.
  2. FIX-002
    Low
    Example scripts write output files from command-line paths
    Add overwrite checks and document that output paths should be user-approved before scripts run in agent workflows.
  3. FIX-003
    Low
    Public database queries may send identifiers to third-party services
    Document that users should avoid private or unpublished identifiers when querying external BioServices-backed databases.

Expert evidence

Immutable subject identity, scanner metadata, dismissed matches, and source-level evidence.

Artifact subject

Marketplace commit
Unavailable
Content hash
Unavailable
Tree hash
Unavailable
Skill path
Unavailable
Audit payload hash
Unavailable

Analysis metadata

Audit model: codex

Analysis state: Complete

Scope is limited to the recorded files, lines, methods, and evidence. No runtime or sandbox execution is claimed.

Verify and export

JSON report CITATION.cff SARIF 2.1.0 Signed installation manifest

The manifest and lockfile bind install artifacts to cryptographic hashes. This integrity claim is separate from the security assessment.

Audit attestation: not_attestable