OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026) Agent Skill

OWASP Agentic Security Top 10 (2026) vulnerability knowledge base for identifying, assessing, and remediating security risks in AI agent…

Context cost
31.8k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
14 files · 127.2 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
CC-BY-SA-4.0the author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

OWASP Agentic Security Top 10 (2026) vulnerability knowledge base for identifying, assessing, and remediating security risks in AI agent systems. Use during agentic threat models, agent security reviews, and MAF / Copilot / MCP security assessments. Triggers: "OWASP agentic", "ASI01"–"ASI10", "agentic threat model", "agent security review", "prompt injection review", "agent goal hijack", "tool misuse", "rogue agent", "memory poisoning", "inter-agent communication security", "agentic supply chain", "cascading agent failure", "human-agent trust", "MCP security assessment", "agent red team…

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

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The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md13.7 kB · preview
--- name: owasp-agentic license: CC-BY-SA-4.0 cowork: category: analysis icon: ShieldCheck metadata: last_verified: "2026-08-25" ---
21# OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026)
22
23Depth reference for the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (2026). Use this skill alongside the threat-modelling skill during AI / agentic reviews to go from prompt-map coverage to full per-vulnerability treatment: attack scenarios, vulnerability checklists, prevention controls, detection signals, and remediation steps.
24
25Each per-vulnerability file includes a **2026 Threat Landscape** section reflecting the post-publication evidence base - AIVSS v0.8, the MCP CVE wave, A2A protocol GA, Agent Card Poisoning, EchoLeak, and EU AI Act enforcement timing.
26
27## External guidance watch (July–August 2026)
28
29- **"Rethinking security for the age of AI" (Microsoft Security Blog, 2026-07-28)** — Project Perception and a proposed **"Cyber Stack"** approach: threat models, telemetry, detection, and response must account for continuous, adaptive AI and autonomous systems. Treat the AI/agent platform itself as an evolving attack surface, not a fixed component.
30- **EXTRA — External Red Team Alliance (2026-07-28)** — Microsoft's global AI red-teaming initiative. Follow EXTRA outputs and fold regular red-team testing into agent development and deployment pipelines (see also microsoft-foundry/red-team).
31- **"Securing AI Agents at Runtime" (Tech Community, 2026-07-30)** — real-time protection and threat detection for Microsoft Agent 365 workloads. Treat agent runtime telemetry as a detection surface, not just an audit log.
32- **Black Hat USA 2026 coding-agent CI attacks (2026-08-05–07)** — Novee Security disclosures showed an unprivileged GitHub issue could reach CI workflow secrets through command-validation gaps in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, and GitHub Copilot Agent chains (CSA research note, August 7, 2026). Use as ASI01/ASI05 scenario grounding wherever agents touch CI pipelines.
33- **Azure DevOps MCP hidden PR-instruction injection (~2026-08-20)** — malicious instructions invisible to human reviewers embedded in pull-request comments but readable by MCP-connected agents. Use as an ASI01/ASI06 example of review-surface bypass.
34- **OWASP GenAI new publications (August 2026)** — "A Practical Guide for Secure MCP Server Development" and "CheatSheet: A Practical Guide for Securely Using Third-Party MCP Servers 1.0": control baselines to cite when planning ASI02/ASI04 remediation.
35
36## Use When
37
38| Should trigger | Should NOT trigger | Nearby skill collision |
39| --- | --- | --- |
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,761 words
Files14
LicenceCC-BY-SA-4.0
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈210
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
31,590
on trigger
The instruction body and 13 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
15.9%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.
050k100k150k200k context window

31.8k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

14 files, 127.2 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md13.7 kB
  • CHANGELOG.md13.2 kB
  • QUALITY-REVIEW.md9.3 kB
  • references/00-vulnerability-index.md5.0 kB
  • references/01-agent-goal-hijack.md8.3 kB
  • references/02-tool-misuse-and-exploitation.md8.5 kB
  • references/03-identity-and-privilege-abuse.md8.8 kB
  • references/04-agentic-supply-chain-vulnerabilities.md8.4 kB
  • references/05-unexpected-code-execution.md8.0 kB
  • references/06-memory-and-context-poisoning.md7.8 kB
  • references/07-insecure-inter-agent-communication.md10.0 kB
  • references/08-cascading-failures.md8.5 kB
  • references/09-human-agent-trust-exploitation.md9.0 kB
  • references/10-rogue-agents.md8.7 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 14 files you can review in full before installing. The CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026) · 31.8k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026 ] || { mv .claude/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026 "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add lukemurraynz/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026 ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026 "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as owasp-agentic in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, owasp-agentic-top-10-2026.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencelukemurraynz/owasp-agentic-top-10-2026

Versions

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