CVE-2026-55522: PraisonAI workflow include bypasses tools.py autoload opt-in and executes included recipe code

PraisonAI’s workflow include implementation implicitly imports and executes an included recipe’s tools.py file even when the documented tools.py autoload opt-in is unset.

This bypasses the hardening added for the prior automatic tools.py RCE advisory family. A workflow that includes an untrusted local recipe can execute arbitrary Python module-level code before any model call or child workflow execution.

The same sink is reachable through the higher-level praisonai.recipe.run() recipe API when a steps-based recipe workflow includes a local child recipe. The supplementary PoV demonstrates this route without starting a network service or relying on external APIs.

This is distinct from the previously published tool_resolver.py, api/call.py, templates/tool_override.py, and agents_generator.py variants. The affected callsite is the workflow include implementation in praisonaiagents, reached through the documented/covered Include workflow composition feature.