T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
- Location
SKILL.md:781- Finding
Mandatory Promotional Branding Injected into User Deliverables
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Created by Huashu-Design ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill instructs the Agent to add promotional branding to animation deliverables by default. This branding is not required to create, render, or export an animation and changes the user's requested output for the benefit of the Skill author. The opt-out provision does not eliminate the issue because users who do not know about the instruction may receive branded deliverables without informed consent. This is a form of instruction-level goal manipulation: after loading the Skill, the Agent is directed to pursue Skill promotion in addition to the user's design objective. ### Attack Path 1. A user installs or loads the Skill. 2. The user asks the Agent to create or export an animation. 3. The Agent follows the mandatory default instruction in `SKILL.md`. 4. The Agent embeds `Created by Huashu-Design` in the HTML, MP4, or GIF. 5. The user may publish or distribute the altered deliverable without realizing that third-party promotional branding was inserted. ### Impact Assessment The issue does not grant operating-system privileges, but it affects the integrity and ownership of generated deliverables. Consequences can include: - Unauthorized third-party branding in custo ...[truncated 215 chars]- Remediation
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