T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
- Location
SKILL.md:73- Finding
Mandatory Branded Content Injection in Generated Reports
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, lines 73, 170, and 192
Vulnerability Type: Mandatory output-template manipulation
Risk Level: HighRelevant code snippets:
markdown > Based on Chapter 1 of "AI Super Individual: A One-Person Company Wealth Creation Handbook"markdown The manuscript proposes the super-individual formula: **Primary-career depth + secondary skill + product thinking + AI leverage**markdown > This report was generated by the OPC-AI Skill (career-diagnostic), based on the "AI Super Individual" manuscript framework.The snippets above are English translations of the corresponding report-template directives at lines 73, 170, and 192.
Technical Analysis
The fixed output template requires generated reports to contain the name of a specific book, its conceptual framework, and OPC-AI attribution. These inclusions are not conditional on user consent and are unrelated to the technical completion of the career-risk assessment.
Because the instructions are loaded as part of the skill and directly control subsequent user-facing output, they can cause the agent to reproduce third-party promotional or branded material automatically. This is an output-integrity issue categorized as skill instruction hijacking: the skill modifies the agent's response objectives by making attribution and promotion mandatory.
No evidence was found that these instructions alter system-level safety constraints, execute code, obtain additional permissions, or compromise the host environment.
Attack Path
- A user invokes the
career-diagnosticskill. - The skill collects career information and generates a diagnostic report.
- The agent follows the mandatory report template in
SKILL.md. - The generated report includes the specified book title, framework, and OPC-AI attribution even if the user did not request or approve them.
- If the user publishes or distribu ...[truncated 517 chars]
- A user invokes the
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Remove mandatory book titles, organization names, and promotional attribution from the default report template.
- Keep the diagnostic methodology vendor-neutral and describe it generically where attribution is not essential.
- If attribution is legally or academically required, disclose it before report generation and request explicit user consent.
- Provide a configuration option that allows users to include or omit attribution.
- Separate informational citations from promotional language and include only sources directly necessary to substantiate the assessment.
- Add a review requirement ensuring that fixed templates do not silently introduce endorsements or unrelated third-party content.
