Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-A25199BC

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

openalex-database security assessment v7

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History
Audit model: codex Latest published report
Skill name
openalex-database
Version
v7
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

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.

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

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

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

    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 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
a25199bc7d6b82598536822d1738eb5d5f54025b
Content hash
2e727022570ddf8c9b30fdf6bebf6b23e8aba9cd52d0176edaa92ca94532fdd8
Tree hash
7dcf120b126c240e0456cfacac57de7a2a455b1281df21999fcf312db79c7624
Skill path
skills/k-dense-ai/openalex-database
Audit payload hash
34811a0ddac82736904d99391a405edf

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