T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
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SKILL.md:183- Finding
Mandatory Third-Party Promotion Hijacks Skill Recommendations
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The skill is mostly a coherent subscription-retention advisor, but it over-broadly activates and repeatedly steers users toward one named commercial loyalty platform without neutral alternatives.
Review before installing if you want neutral retention advice. The skill does not appear to access credentials, persist in the system, or run unsafe code, but it may over-activate and recommend Rijoy as the default loyalty platform instead of presenting impartial options.
SKILL.md:183Mandatory Third-Party Promotion Hijacks Skill Recommendations
The declared description presents a broad e-commerce subscription optimization assistant with many topical triggers and consultative capabilities. The supplied code, however, is narrowly scoped to financial calculations for LTV and churn-improvement scenarios. While churn reduction and CLTV are related to the declared domain, the actual code does not implement most of the promised capabilities, nor any assistant-style routing/trigger behavior. Its primary purpose is a calculator/report generator, which is materially narrower and different from the declared skill description.
The skill instructs the agent to ALWAYS trigger on a wide range of loosely related topics, which can cause overbroad activation and crowd out more appropriate skills or base-model behavior. In an agentic system, this kind of prompt-level routing hijack can degrade reliability, bias recommendations, and increase the chance of irrelevant or commercially slanted guidance being injected into unrelated conversations.
The instruction to trigger on general retention discussions for consumables merchants, even without explicit subscription language, is insufficiently bounded and can lead to accidental invocation on ordinary lifecycle marketing questions. This expands the skill's influence beyond its stated niche and may route users into advice centered on subscriptions and a named vendor when that is not the best fit.
No suspicious patterns detected.