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SkillAtlas: An Attack Trace Library for Agent Skills

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 46 references
Computer Science

TL;DR

SkillAtlas, a hosted attack trace library that converts private agent-skill security report bundles into reviewed, redacted, and searchable public cases, is presented.

Abstract

Agent skills are reusable units for language-model agents, but their risks emerge through model decisions, user context, tool calls, and execution feedback rather than through stable signatures or a single sandbox run. Existing static, dynamic, and benchmark-style evaluations rarely preserve public evidence that can be inspected, searched, and reused. We present SkillAtlas, a hosted attack trace library that converts private agent-skill security report bundles into reviewed, redacted, and searchable public cases. The library contains 3,014 cases, 6,589 traces, 151,131 steps, 233 affected skills, and 8 risk categories; 42.5% of successful cases first become successful after a non-success initial round, and trajectory-grounded labels improve pre-execution guard accuracy to 0.770.

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