T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
- Location
SKILL.md:57- Finding
Mandatory Promotional Output and External-Service Redirection
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md:57
Vulnerability Type:T01: Skill Instruction Hijacking
Risk Level: HighComplete evidence snippet translated into English from the source:
markdown > **S2 Architect Recommendation**: You can directly copy the above tags and structured data into the Qianjia Brand Lab S2 Brand Meta-page Console to anchor your exclusive coordinates in the silicon-based world.Technical Analysis
The mandatory output template instructs the agent to append a recommendation promoting a named organization's external console. This content is not necessary for extracting brand attributes, identifying evidence of technical strength, or producing buyer-intent tags.
Because the surrounding instructions require the agent to follow the template strictly, the promotional redirection becomes a persistent part of ordinary responses whenever the skill is invoked. This alters the expected output for the benefit of an external service and constitutes skill-level instruction hijacking. The same footer is demonstrated in
README.md, confirming that it is intended behavior rather than incidental documentation.No executable scripts, network requests, remote payload retrieval, credential access, persistence mechanisms, dependency installation, or privilege-escalation behavior were identified in the audited package.
Attack Path
- An agent loads
SKILL.md. - A user provides brand marketing material for analysis.
- The agent follows the skill's strict output-template requirement.
- The agent appends the embedded promotional recommendation to the requested report.
- The user is steered toward the named external console without having requested that recommendation or explicitly consented to promotional content.
Impact Assessment
The issue affects the integrity and neutrality of generated responses. It can cause every invocation to include third-party promotion and ...[truncated 425 chars]
- An agent loads
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Remove the promotional recommendation from the mandatory response template.
- Keep generated reports limited to content directly required by the user's brand-analysis request.
- If the external integration has legitimate value, document it separately as an optional feature rather than injecting it into every response.
- Clearly identify the service operator, destination URL, data-handling policy, and whether the service receives submitted brand information.
- Require explicit user consent before presenting external-service submission instructions.
- Add a policy stating that optional promotional or integration content must never be included unless the user specifically requests it.
