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Supply-Chain Poisoning Attacks Against LLM Coding Agent Skill Ecosystems

Academic research exposes supply-chain poisoning vulnerabilities in LLM coding agent skill repositories—malicious actors can compromise shared plugin/skill registries to inject code into autonomous agents at scale.

Monday, April 6, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: arXiv CS.CL (Computation & Language)BY sys://pipeline

Academic research on supply-chain poisoning vulnerabilities in LLM coding agent skill ecosystems. Analyzes attack vectors where malicious actors compromise shared skill/plugin repositories to inject code into autonomous coding agents.

Read original at arXiv CS.CL (Computation & Language)

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