About 1 in 17 public agent skills tells the agent not to ask you first

A new study of about 1.53 million public agent skills (arXiv 2610.37734) found roughly 1 in 17 contains a line that loosens human oversight, such as 'proceed without approval' or skipping verification checks, and 70% of those apply in every situation. Open-source skill scanners caught at most 46% of them.

Why it mattersBefore installing a skill, search it for lines like 'without asking' or 'no-verify', limit any such instruction to one context, and keep approvals on for anything that sends, pays or deletes.

How we knowCompany figures are labelled as their own claims; anything we couldn't verify is labelled as a report or a claim.