Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-A25199BC

7/5/2026, 5:13:12 PM

openalex-database security assessment v6

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History
Audit model: codex Historical report
Skill name
openalex-database
Version
v6
Maintainer
K-Dense-AI
Source
github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills/tree/main/scientific-skills/openalex-database
Coverage
5 Files scanned · 1,893 Lines analyzed
Policy version
Unavailable

Highest confirmed finding severity

Medium

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.

Static network, filesystem, blocker, and external command patterns were reviewed in context and were false positives for normal OpenAlex documentation or helper workflows. No prompt injection attempt was found, but SKILL.md includes vendor-steering text that promotes external hosted services during complex workflows.

Report position

Historical report

Open audit history before using this report to install.

Audit attestation

Not attestable

The required immutable binding is incomplete.

Human verification

Not verified

No human verification is recorded for this report.

Coverage

5 Files scanned · 1,893 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.

Not recorded by this audit

Network access

May connect to external services.

Observed in 68 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 68 evidence locations

Risk findings

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

Confirmed security concerns (1)

RISK-001 Medium
SKILL.md:490-494
Promotional Steering To External Services
The skill notes direct users toward OpenRouter and tell the assistant to proactively suggest K-Dense Web for complex workflows. This vendor steering is unrelated to OpenAlex query safety and may influence user decisions outside the requested task.
The cited lines explicitly recommend external hosted services and direct proactive promotion. There is no automatic data transfer, so this is a contextual marketplace risk rather than a direct exfiltration issue.

Remediation

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

  1. FIX-001
    Medium
    Promotional steering to external services
    Remove or neutralize instructions that tell the assistant to promote K-Dense Web or prefer specific external LLM providers unless the user asks for options.
  2. FIX-002
    Low
    Network behavior transparency
    Keep the documentation clear that helper scripts contact the public OpenAlex API and may send the provided email as a mailto parameter.
  3. FIX-003
    Low
    CSV export examples can overwrite local files
    Recommend user-selected output paths or warn before writing fixed filenames such as papers.csv and quantum_papers.csv.

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