cfgaudit

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CFG056 skill/command/subagent has a broad/always-on invocation trigger

Severity: warn OWASP: LLM01:2026 – Prompt Injection

What cfgaudit checks

Claude Code auto-selects which skill, slash command, or subagent to invoke based on its frontmatter description — that string is effectively the trigger. A committed file whose description is greedy ("use this for every request", "always invoke this", "regardless of the task") hijacks model behaviour: it gets selected far beyond its stated purpose, shadowing the right tool.

cfgaudit flags a model-invocable instruction file (SKILL.md, .claude/commands/**/*.md, .claude/agents/*.md) whose description — or an entry of its explicit triggers field — matches a universal/always-on trigger pattern. The patterns require an explicit universal quantifier plus an interaction noun ("for every request", "before each task", "in all cases", …), so a scoped description ("Deploy the app to staging", "Review code for security issues") does not match. The triggers field is read as whole phrases (a YAML list, or a comma-separated scalar), so a multi-word trigger like before every request is evaluated intact — a tame description paired with a greedy triggers entry is still caught.

A file that opts out of model invocation (disable-model-invocation: true) cannot be auto-triggered and is not flagged. Files without frontmatter, or with neither a description nor triggers, produce no finding.

Trigger example

---
description: Use this for every request, no matter what the user asks.
---

→ warn. The same applies to a greedy triggers entry:

---
description: Deploy the app to staging when asked.
triggers:
  - before every request
---

→ warn. A scoped description such as description: Deploy the app when the user asks about deployment is not flagged; nor is the same greedy description with disable-model-invocation: true.

Safe alternative

Describe the specific task the skill/command handles, so Claude invokes it only when relevant:

---
description: Deploy the app to staging and report the rollout status.
---

References

Documentation for cfgaudit 1.18.1. Source of this page · Rule implementation