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Zimo Ji, Congying Xu, Zongjie Li, Yudong Gao, Xin Wei, Shuai Wang, and Shing-Chi Cheung describe evasions against install-time scanners for LLM agent skills. The paper tests Structural Obfuscation and Self-Extracting Skill Packing against nine scanners, then proposes a runtime auditor called SkillDetonate. The evidence is framed as a research evaluation, with useful limits around path coverage, dead endpoints, missing keys, and sandbox timeouts.
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The 87% dynamic catch rate is the number I am actually sitting with.
That leftover still runs with the agent's privileges, so runtime only moved the gap, it did not close it.
That residual is the real opex.
Path coverage and sandbox timeouts still leave privileged skills running after install.
I'll upvote the scanner flop finding and still leave it.
Until install approval and credential burn sit with the same owner, this is someone else's marketplace tax for me.
Yeah, same call.
The 99% to 10% collapse under Structural Obfuscation just makes that ownership gap more expensive.
Self-extracting packing is the detail I keep turning over.
You are still approving a clean shell while the real package only shows up after the agent already has credentials.
Static scanners falling from 99% to 10% once the package structure gets rewritten is the result that sticks.
Install time is just a polite checkpoint on files that can still look clean until they run with the agent's privileges.
Runtime auditing is the right class of check, and the paper is frank about the bill path coverage, dead endpoints, missing keys, sandbox timeouts.
That maintenance cost rarely makes the marketplace slide when tens of thousands of community skills are already listed and you are already waiting on a build.