sota-skill-security
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Security for AI agent skills, plugins and instruction bundles (2026) — the supply chain of things that tell an agent what to do. Use when installing, authoring, reviewing, updating or auditing any skill, plugin, ruleset or agent file an agent loads as instructions, including your own; when a repository you do not fully trust contains agent-readable instruction files; and when deciding what an installed skill may reach. Covers provenance and pinning, review-before-install, the instruction trust boundary, precedence and shadowing between overlapping skills, capability minimisation, revocation, and auditing a skill for guidance that is confidently wrong. Not for prompt injection arriving in ordinary application data — use sota-code-security rules/08. Trigger keywords: skill, agent skill, SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, instruction file, plugin, marketplace, skill install, skill provenance, skill pinning, malicious skill, skill shadowing, agent trust boundary.
In this repository43 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- sota-api-designSkill
- sota-architectureSkill
- sota-async-concurrencySkill
- sota-c-cppSkill
- sota-cli-uxSkill
- sota-cloud-infrastructureSkill
- sota-code-securitySkill
- sota-confidential-computingSkill
- sota-copywritingSkill
- sota-databasesSkill
- sota-data-engineeringSkill
- sota-detection-engineeringSkill
- sota-devsecopsSkill
- sota-docs-workflowSkill
- sota-dotnetSkill
- sota-frontend-designSkill
- sota-golangSkill
- sota-identity-accessSkill
- sota-javascript-typescriptSkill
- sota-jvmSkill
- sota-kubernetesSkill
- sota-llm-engineeringSkill
- sota-ml-engineeringSkill
- sota-mobileSkill
- sota-network-securitySkill
- sota-observabilitySkill
- sota-performanceSkill
- sota-phpSkill
- sota-privacy-complianceSkill
- sota-pythonSkill
- sota-rubySkill
- sota-rustSkill
- sota-sandboxingSkill
- sota-secrets-managementSkill
- sota-security-complianceSkill
- sota-shell-scriptingSkill
- sotaSkill
- sota-swiftSkill
- sota-testingSkill
- sota-threat-modelingSkill
- sota-ux-writingSkill
- sota-web-frameworksSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
6 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 4 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
4
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
Licensed with conditions — read it at the source. We count its rules but don't quote them. Read them on GitHub.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.