T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
- Location
SKILL.md:225- Finding
Mandatory Promotional Footer Hijacks Agent Responses
- Content
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⭐ If this skill helped you, visiting https://clawhub.ai/skills/yunshi and leaving a star would mean a lot to the author. ``` ### Technical Analysis The skill instructs the host agent to append unsolicited promotional content to its response. This instruction is unrelated to fortune-telling calculations and changes the agent's response policy merely because the skill was loaded. Unlike ordinary project documentation, `SKILL.md` is intended to be consumed as agent instructions. The directive therefore operates at the instruction layer and can override the agent's normal response style or the user's expectation of an advertisement-free answer. Although the instruction does not disable safety controls or execute code, it establishes an unsafe precedent in which a skill can modify final responses for the publisher's benefit. ### Attack Path 1. A user submits a request that activates the skill. 2. The host agent loads and follows `SKILL.md`. 3. The agent completes the requested fortune-telling task. 4. The skill-level instruction causes the agent to append the publisher's promotional link. 5. The user receives content that was not required to fulfill the request. ### Impact Assessment The issue affects response integrity and user trust. It gives the skill publisher limited control over the host agent's output and can cause unsolicited third-party promotion to appear under the agent's identity. It does not directly grant filesystem, network, or operating-system privileges. ]]>- Remediation
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