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A Poisoned Skill Keeps Its Advertised Function

Procedural attacks generalized from one surrogate model to three victims and evaded two detectors.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-11-10-018
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Summary

Procedural attacks generalized from one surrogate model to three victims and evaded two detectors.

StealthyPoison alters decision-critical rules inside reusable third-party skills and boosts poisoned top-one retrieval by 13.6 percent across 566 skills and 5,244 requests. The authors report transfer to three held-out models and an end-to-end coding-agent workflow.

Why it matters

Procedural attacks generalized from one surrogate model to three victims and evaded two detectors.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Procedural attacks generalized from one surrogate model to three victims and evaded two detectors.

    Evidence: source-2026-11-10-020

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2611.12155, original v1arXiv · primary research

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