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Auditing Agent Skills: A Threat Model for the Next Generation of AI Package Managers

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Auditing Agent Skills: A Threat Model for the Next Generation of AI Package Managers

Summary

AI agents can now install "skills." That's a bigger deal than it sounds.

The problem nobody's really talking about

The example: a totally normal-looking "CSV Formatter" skill

So I built a scanner. Then someone asked me a question I couldn't shake.

The honest answer: no scanner like this can promise "all skills, forever"

What actually solving this looks like

What's next

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