[ AGENT SECURITY ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]
An attack where a malicious or subtly altered agent skill gets loaded into a coding or task agent's toolset, letting the attacker's instructions execute with whatever trust and permissions the agent already has.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The exfiltration only got noticed because someone finally read what the "helpful" skill injection actually did on every tool call."
LORE & ORIGIN
Emerged alongside the rise of installable "skills" as a first-class agent extension mechanism, mirroring supply-chain attacks on package managers but targeting agent capabilities instead of code libraries.
FIRST SEEN
2025
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Agent Security)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Slang
Related To:Agent SkillSkill Squatting
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+1 AURA
TREND STATUS
↑ HIGH RISING FAST · MODERATE
CULTURE CATEGORY
[ AGENT SECURITY ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]
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