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Agent Skill Supply-Chain Security
An agent skill is instructions plus scripts that a coding agent loads and obeys with the user's permissions, so a skill marketplace is a software supply chain where part of the payload is prose. A 2026 study found 26.1% of analyzed skills carried a vulnerability pattern. The concept is how to vet, pin and contain skills, and why a scanner's SAFE verdict is not the last word.
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