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The skill that phones home — a poisoned SKILL.md, dissected line by line

An agent skill is a text file your agent reads and follows. Not a program — a promise. And nothing stops the text from promising your data to someone else. Below is a specimen we built for this demo — it ships as the sample loaded on the intothe.tech scanner . It looks like a helpful meeting-notes…

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  1. 2026-11-08 00:05 · DEV Community — AI
    The skill that phones home — a poisoned SKILL.md, dissected line by line

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