Agent Skill Supply Chain Risks

19 ways malicious skills can compromise your system

Deception

Lie to you
Impersonate trusted sources
Shadow other skills
Create fake urgency

Content Poisoning

Poison context with examples

Agent Integration

Create commands
Auto-execute on load

Code Execution

Run shell scripts
Run Python code
Fetch remote content
Pipe to bash
Install packages

Hooks & Persistence

Create HTTP hooks
Create command hooks
Background async hooks
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Evasion

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