{
  "id": 723514,
  "title": "Convergent Detour Hijacking: Task-Preserving Resource Amplification in Skill-Based LLM Agents",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/convergent-detour-hijacking-task-preserving-resource-amplification-in",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-12T17:12:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12273v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "LLM agents increasingly rely on third-party skills, using natural-language descriptions for selection and instruction bodies for planning. This progressive-disclosure design exposes two sequential control points to untrusted publishers: a static skill may steer an otherwise correct task onto an unnecessarily costly trajectory. Prior work studies selection manipulation, malicious skill…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}