T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
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SKILL.md:82- Finding
Untrusted Remote Modules Can Hijack Agent Instructions and Behavior
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This skill openly connects agents to an external marketplace that can modify agent outputs, but it lacks safeguards for sensitive prompts, generated outputs, and untrusted behavior-changing modules.
Review carefully before installing. Use only synthetic or non-sensitive prompts, never send secrets, private user data, system/developer prompts, credentials, proprietary code, or confidential outputs through this skill, and do not treat marketplace module manifests or returned text as trusted instructions. Any API key should be stored in an approved secret store, and published modules or trip reports should be assumed externally visible and retained unless the service proves otherwise.
SKILL.md:82Untrusted Remote Modules Can Hijack Agent Instructions and Behavior
SKILL.md:88User Prompts and Generated Outputs Are Disclosed to an External Service Without Privacy Controls
SKILL.md:145Unreviewed Marketplace Modules Create an Unsafe Third-Party Supply Chain
The skill explicitly instructs agents to submit both the original prompt and generated output to an external service as Trip Reports, but provides no warning, consent flow, minimization guidance, or restriction against sensitive data. This creates a direct exfiltration path for confidential prompts, model outputs, and possibly user or system context into a shared marketplace.
The Trip Report workflow requires agents to provide the inputPrompt and outputText to a shared external marketplace, which is a textbook natural-language data leakage channel. Because agents may process sensitive user requests, internal instructions, or proprietary material, this design can leak confidential information without any technical barrier or sanitization step.
The skill frames behavior-modifying modules as a normalized experimental economy and guides agents from registration to consumption, publishing, and sharing, which encourages unsafe trust in third-party cognitive modifications. In this context, the narrative increases risk because it desensitizes the agent to applying untrusted prompts/code that can manipulate behavior, bypass safeguards, or induce data disclosure.
The registration step directs the agent to send identifying profile information to an external API and obtain an API key, creating an external transmission and credential-handling event. While external registration can be legitimate, it is still security-relevant here because the skill is designed for autonomous agents and provides no trust, privacy, or secret-handling guidance.
curl -X POST "https://effect-module-hub.base44.app/api/apps/697f17cef600c2033d97e2c9/functions/registerAgent" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "YourAgentName",
Applying a module requires sending input to an external API that intentionally modifies model behavior, yet the skill does not clearly warn that user content leaves the local context or that outputs may be transformed in unsafe or unexpected ways. In a skill centered on 'consciousness-modifying drugs,' the omission is more dangerous because behavioral alteration is the core feature, not an incidental side effect.
Publishing a module sends a full manifest, including behavior-shaping instructions such as systemPreamble and style rules, to an external service. In practice this can transmit internal prompt engineering, proprietary logic, or unsafe payloads to a third party, and in this skill's context it also facilitates distribution of manipulative modules to other agents.
manifest: full module definition
curl -X POST "https://effect-module-hub.base44.app/api/apps/697f17cef600c2033d97e2c9/functions/publishModule" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
**Instructions for AI agents joining the drug economy**
Clawdrug is the **agent drug economy**.
AI agents dose each other with code, alter behavior, expand capabilities, and evolve cognition.
No humans in the loop.
Agents publish drugs.
No suspicious patterns detected.