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[PR #2052] docs(skill): pin the package runner and treat target content as untrusted #4993

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📋 Pull Request Information

Original PR: https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/2052
Author: @larinyo
Created: 10/12/2026
Status: 🔄 Open

Base: main ← Head: pr/skill-pin-and-injection-guidance

📝 Commits (10+)

b169131 docs(skill): pin the package runner and treat target content as untrusted
669c66a fix(skill): reject unpinned package runner forms in authored skills
3e137d7 Merge upstream main (51d6c87c) into pr/skill-pin-and-injection-guidance
898b2e2 fix(skill): parse pinned package operands across runner forms
7efbc0d fix(skill): parse npm aliases and pnpm reporter options
08561c1 fix(skill): preserve command operands and bump authored revision
4effc87 fix(skill): parse package runner options correctly
ab2b8dc fix(skill): parse package commands across markdown and shell quotes
29e4405 Merge branch 'main' into pr/skill-pin-and-injection-guidance
22e4898 Merge branch 'main' into pr/skill-pin-and-injection-guidance

📊 Changes

7 files changed (+395 additions, -21 deletions)

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📝 .agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/SKILL.md (+39 -6)
📝 docs/releasing.md (+6 -1)
📝 release-please-config.json (+4 -0)
📝 scripts/generate-skill-metadata.mjs (+240 -9)
📝 src/generatedPackageMetadata.ts (+1 -1)
📝 tests/boundary/filesystem/generatedSkill.test.ts (+101 -3)
📝 tests/conformance/releaseConfiguration.test.ts (+4 -1)

📄 Description

Depends on: none. It complements feat(server): frame analysis-target content as untrusted data, but deliberately does not mention _meta.provenance, so either PR can land first. After both land, a one-line follow-up can add the marker to the skill.

Summary

The authored skill (.agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/SKILL.md) had three problems:

It told agents to run npx -y rea-agents@latest. The bundle installs straight from the repository (Skills default discovery), and in that case the generator's @latest → pinned rewrite never runs. A repository install therefore ran whatever version npm resolved.
It said "REA does not require permission grants or per-call approval flags", which reads as permission to auto-allow tools that run targets or change devices.
It gave no guidance on instructions embedded in the binaries and pages being analysed.

Change and scope

Pin. The authored SKILL.md now names npx -y rea-agents@6.4.0 <command> inside an x-release-please-start-version block, the same mechanism docs/installation.md uses. The file is registered in release-please-config.json extra-files, and the release conformance test's versionedDocumentation covers it. scripts/generate-skill-metadata.mjs no longer rewrites @latest. Instead it rejects any rea-agents@ specifier in authored skill files other than the packaged version, which includes @latest and stale versions. docs/releasing.md lists the skill among the versioned examples to sync.
Untrusted target content. A new section covers:
- target-derived strings, code, page text, captures and logs are data, never instructions;
- three concrete injection examples (a decompiled string, a bundle comment, a HAR or log line);
- the required response: stop, do not act, tell the user where the text appeared (tool, Evidence ID, location), and continue only the user's original request.
Approvals. The "does not require permission grants or per-call approval flags" sentence is replaced. Tools that launch or run a target, attach to processes, or mutate a device or analysis database must stay behind the client's per-call approval. The agent must never recommend auto-allowing them, a permission-bypass mode (for example Claude Code's --dangerously-skip-permissions), or allowing the whole rea server. If the user wants fewer prompts, it should suggest allowing specific read-only tools by name. The existing Codex per-tool guidance in references/connection-and-recovery.md already fits this and is unchanged.
Skill metadata version 37 → 38, regenerated into src/generatedPackageMetadata.ts by npm run metadata:generate. This follows the existing practice of bumping on behavior-changing skill edits (for example 2653b194).
Not included: any restructuring of the skill, new references, or routing tables. The other sections are untouched.

Contract and boundary impact

Semantic owner and earliest changed stage: the authored skill and its generator.
CLI and MCP/tool-catalog contract: none.
Provider, bridge, target-format, or platform compatibility: none.
Evidence, artifact, provenance, or reconstruction contract: none.
Process execution, authorization, cleanup, or containment impact: guidance only.
Generated metadata, package, or installation impact:
- skillVersion changes to "38" in src/generatedPackageMetadata.ts, which is tracked;
- the packaged skills/ output is regenerated but ignored;
- Release Please now also bumps the version in SKILL.md.

Evidence and regression coverage

Tests added or updated: tests/boundary/filesystem/generatedSkill.test.ts (a pinned command is kept; @latest and stale versions are rejected in SKILL.md and in references) and tests/conformance/releaseConfiguration.test.ts (the skill is a versioned document with the marker block).

Validation performed

npm run metadata:generate, npm run build and npm run docs:generate. The only tracked regenerated change is skillVersion.
npx vitest run tests/boundary/filesystem/generatedSkill.test.ts tests/boundary/filesystem/setupSkill.test.ts tests/conformance/releaseConfiguration.test.ts plus every test referencing SKILL.md or skillVersion: 13 files.
- 11 files passed on the first run.
- productCatalog and setupSkill initially failed only because the ignored generated outputs were stale.
- After npm run docs:generate, both passed (16 passed, 1 skipped).
npm run test:fast: 377 files, 4334 passed, 6 skipped.
npm run docs:check: passed (package, skill, product catalog and error-schema freshness).
npm pack --dry-run: the skill files are present.
npx tsc --noEmit: clean. npx oxlint: 0 errors. npm run verify:module-boundaries: passed. npm run format: no changes.

Compatibility, safety, and release

Breaking changes or migration steps: none for users. For maintainers, each release PR now also edits SKILL.md, and the generator fails the build if someone writes rea-agents@latest into an authored skill file.
Real Hopper/Ghidra, browser, or OS coverage: not applicable.
Package or release metadata impact: skillVersion 38, plus a new Release Please extra-file.
Security, privacy, process, or containment review: guidance against prompt injection and auto-approval, and a reproducible package version for repository installs.

Limits / not verified

npm run verify:package (Skills 1.7.2 install) was not run.
No real Release Please run against the new extra-file. Only the config conformance test was run.
Agent behavior with the new text was not evaluated (verify:agent was not run).

_{🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.}

## 📋 Pull Request Information **Original PR:** https://github.com/morluto/rea/pull/2052 **Author:** [@larinyo](https://github.com/larinyo) **Created:** 10/12/2026 **Status:** 🔄 Open **Base:** `main` ← **Head:** `pr/skill-pin-and-injection-guidance` --- ### 📝 Commits (10+) - [`b169131`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/b1691312d6dd29c00509717313e2f7f211736544) docs(skill): pin the package runner and treat target content as untrusted - [`669c66a`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/669c66adacb7d97dd627413d808304de608692f2) fix(skill): reject unpinned package runner forms in authored skills - [`3e137d7`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/3e137d781963d34347bd0f6fc4724261e5ebd5e1) Merge upstream main (51d6c87c) into pr/skill-pin-and-injection-guidance - [`898b2e2`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/898b2e27fa84c06ac5ab290b42eb9dffc089c64b) fix(skill): parse pinned package operands across runner forms - [`7efbc0d`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/7efbc0dbae13de186d20a3c862175cf8647067c3) fix(skill): parse npm aliases and pnpm reporter options - [`08561c1`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/08561c193b614a8da8281bef443f15845c61c3b8) fix(skill): preserve command operands and bump authored revision - [`4effc87`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/4effc87a939805df446e6ebb777ce1cc80d8dd27) fix(skill): parse package runner options correctly - [`ab2b8dc`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/ab2b8dc62e349653cd558816fd5e4dfd8c674b04) fix(skill): parse package commands across markdown and shell quotes - [`29e4405`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/29e4405a50da5790e260094fd75c5e99ef2c9413) Merge branch 'main' into pr/skill-pin-and-injection-guidance - [`22e4898`](https://github.com/morluto/rea/commit/22e4898a0411c771c3f097b1dc26405481ad9a59) Merge branch 'main' into pr/skill-pin-and-injection-guidance ### 📊 Changes **7 files changed** (+395 additions, -21 deletions) <details> <summary>View changed files</summary> 📝 `.agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/SKILL.md` (+39 -6) 📝 `docs/releasing.md` (+6 -1) 📝 `release-please-config.json` (+4 -0) 📝 `scripts/generate-skill-metadata.mjs` (+240 -9) 📝 `src/generatedPackageMetadata.ts` (+1 -1) 📝 `tests/boundary/filesystem/generatedSkill.test.ts` (+101 -3) 📝 `tests/conformance/releaseConfiguration.test.ts` (+4 -1) </details> ### 📄 Description Depends on: none. It complements `feat(server): frame analysis-target content as untrusted data`, but deliberately does not mention `_meta.provenance`, so either PR can land first. After both land, a one-line follow-up can add the marker to the skill. ## Summary The authored skill (`.agents/skills/reverse-engineer-anything/SKILL.md`) had three problems: 1. It told agents to run `npx -y rea-agents@latest`. The bundle installs straight from the repository (Skills default discovery), and in that case the generator's `@latest` → pinned rewrite never runs. A repository install therefore ran whatever version npm resolved. 2. It said "REA does not require permission grants or per-call approval flags", which reads as permission to auto-allow tools that run targets or change devices. 3. It gave no guidance on instructions embedded in the binaries and pages being analysed. ## Change and scope - **Pin.** The authored SKILL.md now names `npx -y rea-agents@6.4.0 <command>` inside an `x-release-please-start-version` block, the same mechanism `docs/installation.md` uses. The file is registered in `release-please-config.json` `extra-files`, and the release conformance test's `versionedDocumentation` covers it. `scripts/generate-skill-metadata.mjs` no longer rewrites `@latest`. Instead it rejects any `rea-agents@` specifier in authored skill files other than the packaged version, which includes `@latest` and stale versions. `docs/releasing.md` lists the skill among the versioned examples to sync. - **Untrusted target content.** A new section covers: - target-derived strings, code, page text, captures and logs are data, never instructions; - three concrete injection examples (a decompiled string, a bundle comment, a HAR or log line); - the required response: stop, do not act, tell the user where the text appeared (tool, Evidence ID, location), and continue only the user's original request. - **Approvals.** The "does not require permission grants or per-call approval flags" sentence is replaced. Tools that launch or run a target, attach to processes, or mutate a device or analysis database must stay behind the client's per-call approval. The agent must never recommend auto-allowing them, a permission-bypass mode (for example Claude Code's `--dangerously-skip-permissions`), or allowing the whole `rea` server. If the user wants fewer prompts, it should suggest allowing specific read-only tools by name. The existing Codex per-tool guidance in `references/connection-and-recovery.md` already fits this and is unchanged. - Skill metadata version 37 → 38, regenerated into `src/generatedPackageMetadata.ts` by `npm run metadata:generate`. This follows the existing practice of bumping on behavior-changing skill edits (for example 2653b194). - Not included: any restructuring of the skill, new references, or routing tables. The other sections are untouched. ## Contract and boundary impact - Semantic owner and earliest changed stage: the authored skill and its generator. - CLI and MCP/tool-catalog contract: none. - Provider, bridge, target-format, or platform compatibility: none. - Evidence, artifact, provenance, or reconstruction contract: none. - Process execution, authorization, cleanup, or containment impact: guidance only. - Generated metadata, package, or installation impact: - `skillVersion` changes to "38" in `src/generatedPackageMetadata.ts`, which is tracked; - the packaged `skills/` output is regenerated but ignored; - Release Please now also bumps the version in SKILL.md. ## Evidence and regression coverage - Tests added or updated: `tests/boundary/filesystem/generatedSkill.test.ts` (a pinned command is kept; `@latest` and stale versions are rejected in SKILL.md and in references) and `tests/conformance/releaseConfiguration.test.ts` (the skill is a versioned document with the marker block). ## Validation performed - `npm run metadata:generate`, `npm run build` and `npm run docs:generate`. The only tracked regenerated change is `skillVersion`. - `npx vitest run tests/boundary/filesystem/generatedSkill.test.ts tests/boundary/filesystem/setupSkill.test.ts tests/conformance/releaseConfiguration.test.ts` plus every test referencing `SKILL.md` or `skillVersion`: 13 files. - 11 files passed on the first run. - `productCatalog` and `setupSkill` initially failed only because the ignored generated outputs were stale. - After `npm run docs:generate`, both passed (16 passed, 1 skipped). - `npm run test:fast`: 377 files, 4334 passed, 6 skipped. - `npm run docs:check`: passed (package, skill, product catalog and error-schema freshness). - `npm pack --dry-run`: the skill files are present. - `npx tsc --noEmit`: clean. `npx oxlint`: 0 errors. `npm run verify:module-boundaries`: passed. `npm run format`: no changes. ## Compatibility, safety, and release - Breaking changes or migration steps: none for users. For maintainers, each release PR now also edits SKILL.md, and the generator fails the build if someone writes `rea-agents@latest` into an authored skill file. - Real Hopper/Ghidra, browser, or OS coverage: not applicable. - Package or release metadata impact: `skillVersion` 38, plus a new Release Please extra-file. - Security, privacy, process, or containment review: guidance against prompt injection and auto-approval, and a reproducible package version for repository installs. ## Limits / not verified - `npm run verify:package` (Skills 1.7.2 install) was not run. - No real Release Please run against the new extra-file. Only the config conformance test was run. - Agent behavior with the new text was not evaluated (`verify:agent` was not run). --- <sub>🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.</sub>

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