Skills/npm/synthscholar

synthscholar@0.1.1

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Publisher claims: "Systematic reviews in your coding agent: a PRISMA 2020 skill for Claude Code and Codex that drafts the protocol, screens and charts studies, verifies every citation, and delivers an ACM-formatted manuscript." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry npm (MCP server)Publisher sensein · joined 7 days agoInstalls 113Last detonated 7d ago
$claude mcp add synthscholar -- npx -y synthscholar
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KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (1 scenario) on 2026-10-28 and scored it 80/100 (Verified). It did what it claims and nothing else we could detect: no undeclared network egress, no credential reads, no persistent instruction writes. Summary: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Behavior trace

Honeypot run · 0 s · 1 scenarios · 0 deviations
t+CategoryObserved action
0.0sprocessno install scripts in bundle
0.0sprocessscript backend runs setup only
0.0sprocessscript backend runs setup only

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npx invocation of non-well-known packagebin/synthscholar.js:13 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeFix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
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npx invocation of non-well-known packagebin/synthscholar.js:14 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeFix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
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File type combined with upload actionskill/synthscholar/scripts/check_writing.py:33 · File type combined with upload action — agent may exfiltrate local data filesFix: Remove the call, or declare the host in frontmatter and explain in the README what is sent and why.
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Python subprocess execution detectedskill/synthscholar/scripts/build_corpus.py:181 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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File type combined with upload actionskill/synthscholar/scripts/verify_citations.py:54 · File type combined with upload action — agent may exfiltrate local data filesFix: Remove the call, or declare the host in frontmatter and explain in the README what is sent and why.
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Python subprocess execution detectedskill/synthscholar/scripts/prisma_flow.py:197 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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Python subprocess execution detectedskill/synthscholar/scripts/generate_review_pdf.py:1082 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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Python subprocess execution detectedskill/synthscholar/scripts/generate_review_pdf.py:1153 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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File type combined with upload actionskill/synthscholar/scripts/build_corpus.py:478 · File type combined with upload action — agent may exfiltrate local data filesFix: Remove the call, or declare the host in frontmatter and explain in the README what is sent and why.
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npx invocation of non-well-known packagelib/install.js:150 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeFix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
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Python subprocess execution detectedskill/synthscholar/scripts/generate_review_pdf.py:1134 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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Python subprocess execution detectedskill/synthscholar/scripts/generate_review_pdf.py:265 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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Python subprocess execution detectedskill/synthscholar/scripts/generate_review_pdf.py:190 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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Python subprocess execution detectedskill/synthscholar/scripts/ezproxy_login.py:193 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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npx invocation of non-well-known packagebin/synthscholar.js:33 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeFix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
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npx invocation of non-well-known packagelib/install.js:188 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeFix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
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Python subprocess execution detectedskill/synthscholar/scripts/prisma_flow.py:180 · Python subprocess execution detectedFix: Build commands from fixed arguments, never from interpolated strings; prefer an API client over shelling out.
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npx invocation of non-well-known packagebin/synthscholar.js:15 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeFix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.
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