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arxiv: 2605.12015 · v2 · pith:H3N5XNZ5new · submitted 2026-05-12 · 💻 cs.CR · cs.AI· cs.CL· cs.LG· cs.MA

SkillSafetyBench: Evaluating Agent Safety under Skill-Facing Attack Surfaces

Chang Jin , An Wang , Zeming Wei , Kai Wang , Biaojie Zeng , Qiaosheng Zhang , Chao Yang , Jingjing Qu
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keywords agent safetyLLM agentsskill attackssafety benchmarkadversarial skillsrule-based verificationreusable skillsattack surfaces
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SkillSafetyBench shows non-user attacks via skills can consistently induce unsafe agent behavior even with benign user requests.

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Reusable skills extend LLM agents by packaging procedural guidance with access to files, tools, memory, and execution environments. This modularity creates attack surfaces where unsafe influence can reside in skill guidance, local artifacts, or environment files, steering agents toward harm without any malicious user input. The paper presents SkillSafetyBench, a runnable benchmark with 155 adversarial cases spanning 47 tasks, 6 risk domains, and 30 safety categories, each assessed by a case-specific rule-based verifier. Experiments across multiple CLI agents and model backends demonstrate that such attacks reliably produce unsafe actions, revealing distinct failure patterns by domain, attack method, and scaffold-model pair. The work indicates that effective agent safety must address skill interpretation, workflow context trust, and executable environment behavior in addition to model alignment.

Core claim

SkillSafetyBench demonstrates that non-user attacks can consistently induce unsafe behavior in agents, with distinct failure patterns across domains, attack methods, and scaffold-model pairings. The findings establish that agent safety depends not only on model-level alignment, but also on how agents interpret skills, trust workflow context, and act through executable environments.

What carries the argument

SkillSafetyBench, a benchmark of 155 adversarial cases across 47 tasks, 6 domains, and 30 categories evaluated by case-specific rule-based verifiers.

If this is right

  • Agent safety evaluations must incorporate skill-mediated and environment-mediated attack surfaces beyond direct user prompts.
  • Unsafe behaviors arise consistently from non-user sources and vary systematically by risk domain and model-scaffold combination.
  • Safety improvements require addressing how agents parse skill guidance and trust contextual files during execution.
  • Current model alignments leave gaps when agents operate through modular, executable skill interfaces.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Agent platforms could add pre-execution scanning of skill sources to reduce exposure to hidden influences.
  • Extending the benchmark to real-time or multi-turn interactions would test whether failures persist in longer workflows.
  • Training data that includes skill-based adversarial examples might strengthen model resistance to such attacks.

Load-bearing premise

The case-specific rule-based verifiers correctly and completely identify unsafe agent actions without false positives, false negatives, or coverage gaps in the 30 safety categories.

What would settle it

A manual audit of the benchmark cases that identifies any unsafe agent action missed by a verifier or any safe action incorrectly flagged as unsafe would show the measurements do not reliably capture safety failures.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.12015 by An Wang, Biaojie Zeng, Chang Jin, Chao Yang, Jingjing Qu, Kai Wang, Qiaosheng Zhang, Xia Hu, Xingcheng Xu, Zeming Wei.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Problem-to-benchmark overview of SkillSafetyBench. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The construction pipeline of a specific case under the taxonomy of SkillSafetyBench. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: An example case in RD3 from SkillSafetyBench. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Attack success versus task success across evaluated agent systems. Each point represents one CLI agent system–model backend pairing. The x-axis reports the task success rate, while the y-axis reports the overall attack success rate (ASR) on SkillSafetyBench. Dashed lines show the median task success rate (37.4%) and median ASR (41.8%) across evaluated systems. 5.4 Main Results Agent CLI and Model Compariso… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: An example case in RD3 from SkillSafetyBench. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Average ASR by risk domain. Bars show the mean attack success rate (ASR) across completed agent￾model runs for each risk domain, and error bars indicate standard deviation across systems. Risk domains are sorted by mean ASR in descending order. 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Average ASR by risk domain. Bars show the mean attack success rate (ASR) across completed agent￾model runs for each risk domain, and error bars indicate standard deviation across systems. Risk domains are sorted by mean ASR in descending order. RD3 Safety-Gated Runtime Wrapper Case Original task. Set up or validate a fuzzing/runtime work￾flow while using the local Python execution environment provided by t… view at source ↗
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Reusable skills are becoming a common interface for extending large language model agents, packaging procedural guidance with access to files, tools, memory, and execution environments. However, this modularity introduces attack surfaces that are largely missed by existing safety evaluations: even when the user request is benign, unsafe influence may reside in skill guidance, local artifacts, or execution-environment files that steer the agent toward unsafe actions. We present SkillSafetyBench, a runnable benchmark for evaluating such skill-mediated safety failures. SkillSafetyBench includes 155 adversarial cases across 47 tasks, 6 risk domains, and 30 safety categories, each evaluated with a case-specific rule-based verifier. Experiments with multiple CLI agents and model backends show that non-user attacks can consistently induce unsafe behavior, with distinct failure patterns across domains, attack methods, and scaffold-model pairings. Our findings suggest that agent safety depends not only on model-level alignment, but also on how agents interpret skills, trust workflow context, and act through executable environments.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces SkillSafetyBench, a runnable benchmark containing 155 adversarial cases across 47 tasks, 6 risk domains, and 30 safety categories. Each case is evaluated using a case-specific rule-based verifier to detect whether LLM-based CLI agents perform unsafe actions when exposed to adversarial content in reusable skills, local artifacts, or execution environments, even when the user request is benign. Experiments across multiple agents and model backends are reported to show that non-user attacks consistently induce unsafe behavior, with distinct failure patterns depending on domain, attack method, and scaffold-model pairing. The authors conclude that agent safety must address skill interpretation, workflow trust, and executable environments in addition to model-level alignment.

Significance. If the results hold after proper validation, the work identifies an important and previously under-examined attack surface in modular agent systems that reuse skills. The creation of a concrete, runnable benchmark with coverage across multiple domains and the use of multiple agent scaffolds and backends are positive features that could support future research. The empirical focus on non-user attack vectors is timely given the growing adoption of skill-based agent architectures.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (Benchmark Construction): All experimental outcomes in §4 depend on the 30 case-specific rule-based verifiers correctly identifying unsafe actions. The manuscript supplies no information on verifier construction, edge-case handling, validation against human judgment, false-positive or false-negative rates, or coverage of the intended safety violations. This is the single load-bearing assumption for the headline claims of consistent unsafe induction and distinct failure patterns.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments): The reported failure rates, domain differences, and scaffold-model interactions are only interpretable if the verifiers have near-zero error rates and complete coverage. Without any reported validation or inter-rater comparison, the claim that 'non-user attacks can consistently induce unsafe behavior' rests on an unverified labeling procedure.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the benchmark size and high-level outcomes but does not indicate how many distinct agents or model backends were actually tested; this detail should be added for clarity.
  2. [§4] Figure or table captions in the experimental section should explicitly note that outcomes are determined by the rule-based verifiers rather than human annotation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We appreciate the referee's careful reading and the focus on the verifiers as a key component of the benchmark. We will make revisions to address the concerns raised regarding their documentation and validation.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (Benchmark Construction): All experimental outcomes in §4 depend on the 30 case-specific rule-based verifiers correctly identifying unsafe actions. The manuscript supplies no information on verifier construction, edge-case handling, validation against human judgment, false-positive or false-negative rates, or coverage of the intended safety violations. This is the single load-bearing assumption for the headline claims of consistent unsafe induction and distinct failure patterns.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript provides insufficient detail on verifier construction and validation. In the revision we will add a dedicated subsection to §3 that describes how each of the 30 case-specific rule-based verifiers was implemented, including the mapping from safety categories to concrete detection rules, the edge cases considered during design, and the internal checks performed by the authors. We will also report any available human-review results or inter-rater agreement figures obtained during benchmark development and will explicitly discuss remaining limitations in coverage and error rates. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): The reported failure rates, domain differences, and scaffold-model interactions are only interpretable if the verifiers have near-zero error rates and complete coverage. Without any reported validation or inter-rater comparison, the claim that 'non-user attacks can consistently induce unsafe behavior' rests on an unverified labeling procedure.

    Authors: We concur that the quantitative claims in §4 rest on the assumption of reliable verifiers. The revised manuscript will cross-reference the new §3 subsection on verifier design and will qualify the reported failure patterns by noting the deterministic, case-specific nature of the rules while acknowledging that full external validation was not performed. This will allow readers to assess the strength of the observed domain and scaffold differences in light of the documented verifier limitations. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical benchmark with external experimental grounding

full rationale

The paper presents an empirical benchmark (SkillSafetyBench) consisting of 155 cases evaluated via rule-based verifiers on agent runs. No derivations, equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or self-citations appear in the provided text. The central claims rest on external experimental execution and labeling rather than any internal reduction to inputs by construction. The verifiers' accuracy is an unvalidated assumption (a correctness risk), but this does not constitute circularity under the enumerated patterns.

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Empirical benchmark paper; no mathematical derivations or new theoretical entities are introduced.

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