Trajectory-Level Security Debt in LLM Coding Agents

LLM coding agents can traverse hundreds of intermediate code states before submitting a solution. Evaluating only the final artifact leaves the evolution of security findings unmeasured. We introduce the Security Debt Line Integral SDLI, which accumulates static-analysis risk when an agent reache...

SkillShield: Prompt-Space Security Skills for LLM Coding Agents

A coding agent edits files and executes shell commands with its developer's privileges, allowing malicious requests to translate directly into harmful actions or functional malware. Existing defenses have complementary limitations: weight-level alignment is unavailable to API-only deployers,...

SkillBloat: Token Amplification Attacks Via Skill Injection in LLM Coding Agents

Agent skills extend coding agents with task-specific instructions, scripts, and resources, but they also create a trusted instruction channel that can be abused beyond conventional security attacks. This paper studies token amplification through skill injection: an economic resource-abuse threat ...