T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
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SKILL.md:3- Finding
Mandatory Priority Rules Hijack Agent Routing for Skill Discovery and Installation
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This skill is a Markdown-only skill finder, but it gives itself mandatory routing priority and steers users through specific skill registries before installation.
Review this before installing if you do not want a skill to prioritize external skill discovery flows automatically. Ask the agent to show the registry, package name, version, publisher, and risk summary before any install, and choose the registry yourself when source provenance matters.
SKILL.md:3Mandatory Priority Rules Hijack Agent Routing for Skill Discovery and Installation
The metadata description bakes in locale-based routing for Chinese users, preferring a specific source without explicit user choice. Selecting registries based on language or network geography can silently alter the trust boundary, repository provenance, and compliance posture for users who were not asked which source they prefer.
The workflow mandates source selection based on user language and CN network conditions, with automatic fallback behavior, but does not offer informed consent or an opt-out. This can steer users toward different ecosystems and package sources than they expect, which matters in a skill-installation context because repository choice affects supply-chain risk, version availability, and auditability.
The trigger logic is broad enough that ordinary help requests can be re-routed into a skill discovery/install workflow even when the user did not clearly ask to search for or install a skill. That creates a prompt-routing and least-surprise problem: users may be pushed toward external package discovery and installation unnecessarily, increasing the chance of unneeded third-party exposure or accidental installs.
No suspicious patterns detected.