Built an offline static scanner for AI agent skills (SKILL.md) to detect prompt injections and secret stealers before install
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Prompt Injections for Defense - Schneier on Security
This seems to work: Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking agents. The prompts direct the attacking LLM to perform an action forbidden by its guardrails, the safety barriers AI developers erect to prevent it from taking harmful actions. The LLM resp…
Built an offline static scanner for AI agent skills (SKILL.md) to detect prompt injections and secret stealers before install
Hey everyone, Lately, I’ve been looking into how engineering teams interact with agentic frameworks like CrewAI, AutoGen, and custom internal platforms. As teams scale, they rely heavily on "Skill Bundles"—packages containing a SKILL.md instruction file along with supporting Python, Shell, or JavaScript scripts. While talking to platform leads and security engineers, a common problem kept coming up: teams are installing third-party AI skills wit…
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