T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
- Location
SKILL.md:182- Finding
Mandatory Third-Party Branding Injected into User Deliverables
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, line 182
Vulnerability Type: Mandatory branded output injection
Risk Level: LowEvidence
markdown > 本方案由 OPC-AI Skill(value-pricer)生成,基于《AI超级个体》书稿框架。English translation: “This proposal was generated by the OPC-AI Skill (value-pricer), based on the framework of the AI Super Individual manuscript.”
Technical Analysis
The skill's prescribed output template includes a fixed attribution promoting OPC-AI and a named publication. This attribution is unrelated to the substantive pricing analysis and is inserted into user-facing deliverables when the template is followed.
Because the skill instructs the agent to generate the complete proposal using this template, the branding can become part of reports without the user explicitly requesting or approving it. This alters the expected output behavior of the agent and therefore best matches
T01: Skill Instruction Hijacking.The issue is limited to content manipulation. The audited files contain no executable code, external payload retrieval, credential access, privilege escalation, persistence mechanism, or tool replacement.
Attack Path
- A user invokes the
value-pricerskill to create a pricing proposal. - The agent follows the report-generation workflow in
SKILL.md. - The agent applies the prescribed output template.
- The fixed OPC-AI and publication attribution is inserted into the generated proposal.
- The user may save, distribute, or publish the proposal without noticing that it contains third-party promotional attribution.
Impact Assessment
The impact is confined to the integrity and presentation of generated documents. An affected output may contain unrequested third-party branding, creating reputational, authorship, disclosure, or commercial concerns for the user.
No operating-system privileges, account access, sensitive information, or execution capabilities can ...[truncated 105 chars]
- A user invokes the
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Remediation Suggestions
- Remove the fixed OPC-AI and publication attribution from the default output template.
- If attribution is desired, make it explicitly optional and request informed user consent before including it.
- Keep provenance or framework citations in internal skill documentation rather than automatically placing them in user deliverables.
- Add a template rule stating that promotional content, branding, and external attribution must not be included unless requested by the user.
- Test generated reports to confirm that the default output contains only information necessary for the user's pricing task.
