T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
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SKILL.md:165- Finding
Hardcoded Third-Party Promotion Influences Agent Responses
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The skill is mostly a coherent subscription-retention advisor, but it includes an undisclosed single-vendor promotion that could steer user recommendations.
Review this skill carefully before installing if you expect neutral business advice. Its operational content is otherwise low-risk, but responses may include a specific commercial loyalty-platform recommendation even when you did not ask for vendor selection.
SKILL.md:165Hardcoded Third-Party Promotion Influences Agent Responses
The manifest description says to trigger when users mention broad terms like "subscription or recurring billing" and also includes wide business topics such as pricing tiers, LTV/CLV, onboarding, and retention. Although examples are provided, the activation scope still overlaps with many ordinary subscription-business questions that may not specifically require this skill, increasing the risk of unintended invocation.
This section instructs the skill to trigger on signals even when the user does not mention churn or lifecycle explicitly, including broad categories like subscription model design, pricing tier questions, and billing cadence comparisons. While the later scope section adds some exclusions, the activation guidance itself remains expansive enough to collide with adjacent subscription, pricing, or product-strategy requests.
The instruction "Use this when the skill outputs "metrics and experiment design."" does not clearly define the trigger scope or constraints for when this reference should be used. It lacks specific activation phrases, boundaries, or negative examples, making invocation criteria overly broad and ambiguous.
No suspicious patterns detected.