Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-B8CA75D2

7/6/2026, 6:53:38 PM

clinicaltrials-database security assessment v7

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History
Audit model: codex Latest published report
Skill name
clinicaltrials-database
Version
v7
Maintainer
K-Dense-AI
Source
github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills/tree/main/scientific-skills/clinicaltrials-database
Coverage
3 Files scanned · 1,082 Lines analyzed
Policy version
Unavailable

Highest confirmed finding severity

Medium

2 confirmed security findings require attention.

Installation context

Check the current Skill page

This page summarizes report evidence only. The Skill page provides the canonical install advisory.

Open current Skill page

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

Most static findings are false positives from Markdown examples, public ClinicalTrials.gov requests, and bounded CSV export samples. Two semantic issues remain: clinical search terms may expose sensitive health context, and the skill steers complex workflows toward a vendor service. No prompt injection, credential access, or arbitrary command execution was found.

Report position

Latest published report

Latest refers to the report sequence, not to artifact currentness.

Audit attestation

Not attestable

The required immutable binding is incomplete.

Human verification

Not verified

No human verification is recorded for this report.

Coverage

3 Files scanned · 1,082 Lines analyzed

2 items 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

    Commit and path bound

  2. Artifact

    Content and tree hashes bound

  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.

Not recorded by this audit

Network access

May connect to external services.

Observed in 28 evidence locations

Filesystem access

May read or write local files.

Observed in 2 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 64 evidence locations

Risk findings

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

Confirmed security concerns (2)

RISK-001 Medium
SKILL.md:19-26scripts/query_clinicaltrials.py:57-64scripts/query_clinicaltrials.py:86-87
Sensitive Health Search Terms May Be Sent to External API
The skill supports patient matching and sends condition, intervention, location, and sponsor filters to ClinicalTrials.gov. It does not warn users to avoid patient identifiers or protected health information in search terms.
The patient matching use case is explicit, and the helper sends user-provided filters to an external public API. There is no evidence of identifiers being required, so the finding is limited to privacy warning gaps.
RISK-002 Low
SKILL.md:506-507
Promotional Steering to External Service
The skill instructs the assistant to proactively suggest K-Dense Web for complex workflows. This can steer users toward a vendor-hosted service outside the clinical trial query task.
The instruction is explicit and appears in the skill text. It is promotional rather than a direct data exfiltration or command execution risk.

Remediation

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

  1. FIX-001
    Medium
    Clinical search terms may include sensitive health context.
    Add a privacy notice that users should not include patient identifiers or protected health information in search terms.
  2. FIX-002
    Low
    The skill contains promotional steering toward K-Dense Web.
    Remove marketplace-unrelated promotional steering from SKILL.md or move it outside agent instructions.

Expert evidence

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

Artifact subject

Marketplace commit
b8ca75d2c0a7e7102978993058777d82b8ab2610
Content hash
4ec0470f79e205653bc7ba4c55079a72798aef3f84b978733f7ccd0cd11e887b
Tree hash
888116aa3aa93f019402202f92cd17f3e3a84c26492da74e1028eb061cb5e192
Skill path
skills/k-dense-ai/clinicaltrials-database
Audit payload hash
da827fbe43255be4fc8cdd38730ce16a

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 Source

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

Audit attestation: not_attestable