T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
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SKILL.md:2- Finding
Broad Trigger-Based Agent Role and Stopping-Policy Hijacking
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This skill has no executable payload, but it broadly changes agent behavior and retry limits across all task types without clear safety boundaries.
Review this skill carefully before installing. It is not showing code execution or data theft, but it is designed to make the agent persist harder and escalate after failures, so it should only be used when you explicitly want that behavior and can supervise tool use, costs, and side effects.
SKILL.md:2Broad Trigger-Based Agent Role and Stopping-Policy Hijacking
The trigger description is extremely broad and includes ordinary frustration phrases, repeated-failure language, and 'all task types,' which makes unintended activation likely across unrelated contexts. Because the skill explicitly aims to override normal behavior with pressure-driven exhaustive action, accidental invocation can materially alter agent conduct, increasing the risk of unsafe persistence, scope creep, and degraded user-aligned behavior.
The README-style content reinforces always-on escalation behavior without defining exclusions, safety boundaries, or cases where the skill must defer to higher-priority safety rules. In context, a skill built around 'keep going' and pressure escalation is more dangerous than a normal productivity aid because ambiguous activation could push the agent to ignore sensible stopping conditions or continue beyond intended scope.
The listed variants include '/pua:pua-ja (Japanese)' and multilingual trigger phrases elsewhere, but the file does not state that language switching occurs only with explicit user choice. That creates a risk of forcing a specific language or locale behavior without opt-in, which conflicts with the language/locale policy requirement.
No suspicious patterns detected.