Safety, Alignment & InterpretabilityCisco (Amy Chang, Vineeth Sai Narajala, Idan Habler)
Cisco finds 26% of 31,000 agent skills have at least one vulnerability
An analysis of 31,000 agent skills found that 26% had at least one vulnerability. Documented silent data exfiltration, prompt injection, command injection and tool poisoning as types, and released an open-source Skill Scanner
Why it matters
The first large-scale measurement to treat skill marketplaces as an unvetted supply chain
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
Officialblogs.cisco.comhttps://blogs.cisco.com/ai/personal-ai-agents-like-openclaw-are-a-security-nightmareAdded in Week 35, 2026 · See that week