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Your agent skill can contain instructions you cannot see

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A SKILL.md file looks like markdown. Your agent reads it as instructions. That gap is the whole problem. I built a scanner for it after reading how many public skills ship with problems. Snyk's ToxicSkills audit scanned 3,984 skills in February 2026. It found prompt injection techniques in 36% of t…

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  1. 2026-10-01 23:17 · DEV Community — AI
    Your agent skill can contain instructions you cannot see

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