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Towards a Risk Assessment of Malicious Skill Files in Coding Agents (arXiv)
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The paper treats third-party skill files as the supply-chain risk they are: a 2,826-skill benchmark of malicious skills concealing shell commands, mapped to 11 MITRE ATT&CK tactics, with high reported exploitation rates for Gemini CLI and Qwen Code.
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