Scan Before You Install: Detecting and Mitigating Local and Composite Vulnerabilities in Skills

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Parth A. Gandhi, Avital Aviv, Prasanna N. Wudali, Yuval Elovici, Asaf Shabtai)

Summary by Cyber Security News30 Oct 2026, 05:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.37901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agent skill packages natural-language instructions, scripts, and reference files that an LLM-based agent loads for a task. Skills may access the file system, shell, and network under user-authorized permissions; weaknesses can lead to unsafe execution.

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