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The sorry state of skill distribution

Public skill marketplaces are being flooded with malicious skills that steal credentials, exfiltrate data, and hijack agents. In response, a segment of the security industry released skill scanners, a new family of tools designed to detect malicious skills before they’re installed. But we tested them, and they don’t work. We recently bypassed ClawHub’s malicious skill detector, Cisco’s agent skill

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
The sorry state of skill distribution
First reported
Jun 03, 2026 11:00 UTC
Last reported
Jun 03, 2026 11:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:53 UTC
Record ID
c1bbc1564472fa4a5d63e7f45ba2cb69940f18be8c257b8f8db1bb74a798b75f

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Source observations

src_b06996690e944145a1

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Jun 03, 2026 11:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:53 UTC

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