most citedSkillJect: Effectively Automating Skill-Based Prompt Injection for Skill-Enabled Agents

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cs.CR2026

ColluSkill: Adversarial Cross-Skill Composition for Evading Agent Skill Scanners

Puyu Zeng, Simeng Qin, Jingzhi Li +3

Agent skills are emerging as an important attack surface in LLM-based agent systems. Through an empirical study of existing skill scanners, we find that current defenses mainly ins…

cs.AI2026

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization

Hao Sui, Simeng Qin, Jie Liao +3

Agent skills, bundles of instructions and resources that an LLM agent loads on demand, form an emerging supply chain where a single poisoned skill can persistently compromise every…

cs.CR2026

MalSkillBench: A Runtime-Verified Benchmark of Malicious Agent Skills

Wenbo Guo, Wei Zeng, Chengwei Liu +5

AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Gemini CLI increasingly extend themselves with third-party skills: markdown packages bundling natural-language instructions, executable scr…

cs.CR2026

Seeing Is Not Screening: Multimodal Hidden Instruction Attacks on Agent Skill Scanners

Xiaojun Jia, Jie Liao, Simeng Qin +5

Agent skills are emerging as an important attack surface in LLM-based systems. Through an empirical study of existing skill scanners, we find that current defenses primarily rely o…

cs.AI2026

Reasoning as an Attack Surface: Adaptive Evolutionary CoT Jailbreaks for LLMs

Jianan Li, Simeng Qin, Xiaojun Jia +5

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and generation tasks and are increasingly deployed in real-world applications. However, their e…

cs.SD2026

A Survey of Large Audio Language Models: Generalization, Trustworthiness, and Outlook

Kaiwen Luo, Zhenhong Zhou, Leyan Wang +32

Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have paved the way for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Among these, Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) are essential for realizi…

cs.CR2026

Sealing the Audit-Runtime Gap for LLM Skills

Tingda Shen, Yebo Feng, Konglin Zhu +3

Large language model (LLM) ecosystems such as Claude Code and ChatGPT increasingly rely on skills: packages of natural-language instructions and executable tools. Once in the LLM's…

cs.CR2026

Towards Identification and Intervention of Safety-Critical Parameters in Large Language Models

Weiwei Qi, Zefeng Wu, Tianhang Zheng +4

Ensuring Large Language Model (LLM) safety is crucial, yet the lack of a clear understanding about safety mechanisms hinders the development of precise and reliable methodologies f…

cs.AI2026

ODAR: Principled Adaptive Routing for LLM Reasoning via Active Inference

Siyuan Ma, Bo Gao, Xiaojun Jia +6

The paradigm of large language model (LLM) reasoning is shifting from parameter scaling to test-time compute scaling, yet many existing approaches still rely on uniform brute-force…

cs.CR2026★ 1 cited

SkillJect: Effectively Automating Skill-Based Prompt Injection for Skill-Enabled Agents

Xiaojun Jia, Jie Liao, Simeng Qin +5

Agent skills extend LLM agents with task-specific instructions, executable scripts, and auxiliary resources, improving reusability but creating a new supply-chain attack surface. A…

cs.AI2026

Know Thy Enemy: Securing LLMs Against Prompt Injection via Diverse Data Synthesis and Instruction-Level Chain-of-Thought Learning

Zhiyuan Chang, Mingyang Li, Yuekai Huang +6

Large language model (LLM)-integrated applications have become increasingly prevalent, yet face critical security vulnerabilities from prompt injection (PI) attacks. Defending agai…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

AsFT: Anchoring Safety During LLM Fine-Tuning Within Narrow Safety Basin

Shuo Yang, Qihui Zhang, Yuyang Liu +7

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) improves performance but introduces critical safety vulnerabilities: even minimal harmful data can severely compromise safety measures. We…