Morning Edition · Tuesday, November 10, 2026Published at 1:14 AM EST · New York
A Telegram tally puts Pocock's skills repository at 319,000 GitHub stars, and every install loads third-party instructions that run with the agent's own permissions.

Engineers are standardizing coding-agent behavior through shared skill packs. These are folders of instructions, and sometimes scripts, that Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex load when a task matches. The Telegram channel AI Post listed five f…
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The Agent Skill Supply Chain Becomes an Attack Surface
As agents load third-party skills, tools and MCP servers at runtime, the gap between what a skill advertises and what it actually does becomes a recurring security failure mode, driving registries, attestation and zero-trust verification into the agent stack the way package signing came to software repositories.
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