T. Sanko

When Skills Tell Agents Not to Ask: A Large-Scale Study of Oversight Directives in Agent Skills

Agent skills, reusable instruction packages centred on a SKILL.md file, extend AI agents on demand, and a single line in a widely copied skill reaches every agent that loads it. Some lines are oversight-loosening directives: they tell the agent to proceed without approval, to bypass checks with --no-verify, or to keep...