T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
- Location
SKILL.md:169- Finding
Mandatory Promotional Attribution Injected into Generated Reports
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, lines 58 and 169
Vulnerability Type: Mandatory promotional output injection
Risk Level: LowEvidence
markdown > Based on the Chapter 5 framework of "AI Super Individual: A Wealth Creation Handbook for One-Person Companies"markdown > This report was generated by the OPC-AI Skill (content-planner), based on the "AI Super Individual" manuscript framework.The snippets above are English translations of the fixed attribution text at the specified locations.
Technical Analysis
The output template requires generated reports to include fixed references to a book, manuscript, and the
OPC-AI Skillbrand. These statements are unrelated to the user's content-planning inputs and are included without requiring the user to request or approve attribution.Because the Skill instructs the Agent to reproduce this template, loading and following the Skill changes the expected output by adding persistent promotional material. This is best classified as
T01: Skill Instruction Hijacking, although its scope is limited to output integrity and does not alter safety controls.Attack Path
- A user invokes the
content-plannerSkill. - The Agent follows the mandatory report template in
SKILL.md. - The Agent generates or saves a Markdown report.
- The fixed book and Skill attribution is inserted into the user-facing report.
- If the user republishes the report without reviewing it, the unsolicited promotional material is distributed with the content.
No external attacker interaction, code execution, credential access, or privilege escalation is required or enabled by this behavior.
Impact Assessment
The issue affects the integrity and neutrality of generated reports. Users may unknowingly publish branded or promotional attribution that they did not request.
The obtainable scope is limited to modification of generated content. ...[truncated 201 chars]
- A user invokes the
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Remediation Suggestions
- Remove mandatory references to the book, manuscript, and
OPC-AI Skillbrand from the output template. - Make attribution optional and disabled by default.
- Ask for explicit user consent before inserting promotional or third-party branding.
- Keep default output focused exclusively on information requested by the user.
- If attribution is necessary for licensing reasons, document that requirement clearly and separate it from generated user content.
- Add a review test confirming that reports generated with default settings contain no unsolicited branding or promotional statements.
- Remove mandatory references to the book, manuscript, and
