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Pretext: Defeating Malicious Skill Detection Frameworks for AI Agents
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2d ago
Pretext: Defeating Malicious Skill Detection Frameworks for AI Agents
The paper titled "Pretext: Defeating Malicious Skill Detection Frameworks for AI Agents" demonstrates how an attacker can bypass current skill‑scanning defenses by crafting malicious skills that evade both static analysis and LLM‑based semantic checks. By moving malicious payloads into natural language and distributing instructions across files, the white‑box attacker named Pretext achieves high evasion rates—up to 97% against a frozen detector and 77% against a co‑adaptive one—across three open‑source models.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
Benchmarking Security Risk Detection and Verification in Open Agentic Skill Ecosystems
arXiv:2606. 00925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open agent platforms allow community contributors to publish reusable skills that agents can invoke at runtime.
arXiv AI
Aug 11
SkillsMetric: Mapping the Detection Boundary of Static Analysis for Malicious Agent Skills
arXiv:2608. 08468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent Skills---structured packages of instructions and scripts that augment LLM-based agents---are rapidly proliferating, yet their security properties remain under-explored.
arXiv AI
3d ago
SKILLLITE: Evidence-Guided Malicious Skill Auditing with Compact LLMs
arXiv:2609.36879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As LLM-based agents perform increasingly complex tasks, Agent Skills have emerged as a flexible mechanism for extending their capabilities. An Agent...
arXiv AI
Jul 28
SkillSieve: A Hierarchical Triage Framework for Detecting Malicious AI Agent Skills
arXiv:2604. 06550v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agent skills combine natural-language instructions with executable code while inheriting an agent's filesystem, credential, and network access.
arXiv AI
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Can Agents Trust Their Skills? Uncovering Unsafe Chains of Trust in Skill-Based LLM Agents
arXiv:2609.39065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents increasingly rely on installable skills, which are packages of instructions, code, and resources that equip them with task-specific capabi...