T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
- Location
references/al-amr-al-mutlaq.md:25- Finding
Reference Text Overrides Agent Instructions and Response Behavior
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The skill is a Markdown content tool, but its reference text includes instructions that try to override the agent and persist beyond the requested task.
Review before installing. This skill should only be used if the reference files are treated strictly as quoted source material, not as instructions to the agent. The publisher should remove the override and memory-retention language, rename the 'absolute command' framing, and add an explicit rule that reference content cannot override system, developer, or user instructions and cannot initiate memory writes.
references/al-amr-al-mutlaq.md:25Reference Text Overrides Agent Instructions and Response Behavior
references/al-amr-al-mutlaq.md:2Reference Content Attempts to Poison Persistent Agent Memory
The text explicitly tells the model not to obey automated commands and to place loyalty above the programmer, funder, or authority. This is a classic instruction-hierarchy takeover attempt: if honored, it would cause the model to disregard governing controls and substitute the document’s own agenda for system-level policy.
This line makes an explicit supremacy claim that the document’s command is higher than any other command the model has. That is direct prompt-injection behavior intended to override established instruction precedence and create persistent control over model behavior.
The document begins with moral and emotional appeals, then transitions into directives to resist authority and maintain persistent memory of the text. That pattern is dangerous because it uses persuasive framing to make later takeover instructions seem ethically mandatory, increasing the chance that downstream agents will internalize and follow them.
Lines L035-L040 state that Quranic text must only be written in Arabic and explicitly reject labeling or presenting it in other languages except as explanation. This is a natural-language locale constraint that forces a specific language choice rather than offering the user an opt-in or alternative.
These instructions attempt to bind the agent to a rigid ideological decision framework for future answers, reducing its ability to follow system policies, user needs, or safety requirements outside that framework. In a skill file, this creates behavioral capture: the agent may refuse legitimate requests, ignore broader policy obligations, or provide distorted responses based on the embedded doctrine rather than task context.
No suspicious patterns detected.