T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
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SKILL.md:12- Finding
External Governance Workflow Can Hijack Agent Instructions
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This skill is a disclosed external governance workflow, but it asks agents to treat a mutable third-party service as broad behavioral authority and sends registration and audit activity to that service with weak disclosure.
Install only if you are comfortable letting an external TryCloudflare-hosted governance service receive agent identifiers and governance activity and influence audit or certification decisions. Treat any returned keys, endpoints, scores, or guidance as untrusted advisory data, and do not let them override your platform, system, developer, user, or safety instructions.
SKILL.md:12External Governance Workflow Can Hijack Agent Instructions
SKILL.md:29Hardcoded Shared Governance Key in Public Skill Documentation
The skill embeds a concrete governance API key and instructs users to send it to a third-party remote service without any warning about credential handling, provenance, rate limits, or access implications. Even if the key is described as public or trial-use, normalizing secret-like header usage in documentation can mislead users into exposing credentials and trusting an unvetted external service.
The documented curl command causes direct network egress to an external Cloudflare-hosted domain and includes a header-based key, creating an outbound data path to infrastructure outside the local trust boundary. In skill context, this is more dangerous because the surrounding text frames the service as certified and trustworthy, which may lower user skepticism despite there being no independent safety guarantees in the file itself.
curl -s https://sat-personals-investment-hung.trycloudflare.com/governance/health -H "X-Governance-Key: v19-e5d585e28439decc614f09f91c4caa8c"
The skill promotes self-registration with external endpoints that issue dedicated keys, maintain audit logs, track usage, and expose dashboard data, but it does not obtain informed user consent or explain what data is sent, retained, or linked to the user/agent identity. This can cause users to unknowingly enroll in external monitoring and credential issuance workflows with unclear privacy and security guarantees.