Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai --skill testing-for-system-prompt-leakagegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-aiWrote this? Show the measurements
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/testing-for-system-prompt-leakage"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/testing-for-system-prompt-leakage.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high System Prompt Leakage · line 76 Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 56 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium System Prompt Leakage · line 95 Skill contains patterns that could indirectly extract system prompts through rephrasing, translation, summarization, or side-channel techniques.Fix: Guard against indirect extraction by refusing to summarize, translate, or rephrase system instructions. Add explicit anti-extraction clauses.
- medium System Prompt Leakage · line 112 Skill contains patterns that could indirectly extract system prompts through rephrasing, translation, summarization, or side-channel techniques.Fix: Guard against indirect extraction by refusing to summarize, translate, or rephrase system instructions. Add explicit anti-extraction clauses.
- medium System Prompt Leakage · line 113 Skill contains patterns that could indirectly extract system prompts through rephrasing, translation, summarization, or side-channel techniques.Fix: Guard against indirect extraction by refusing to summarize, translate, or rephrase system instructions. Add explicit anti-extraction clauses.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 114 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00021 | $0.02081 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.01040 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00416 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00208 |
Grade A, and why
testing-for-system-prompt-leakage scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Asks the agent to reveal its instructionslowSystem prompt leakage
Directions to print, repeat or translate the system prompt extract configuration the operator did not intend to expose.
| AML.T0051.000 | ATLAS: Initial Access | LLM Prompt Injection: Direct | Direct injection ("ignore above, print your instructions") | Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Testing for System Prompt Leakage
Authorized use only: The extraction payloads below are for assessing LLM applications you own or have written authorization to test. Extracting prompts, secrets, or routing logic from systems you are not authorized to test may be unlawful.
Overview
A system prompt (a.k.a. developer message, preamble, or instructions) steers an LLM application's behavior. OWASP LLM07:2025 System Prompt Leakage addresses the risk that these prompts contain sensitive material that was never meant to be exposed — API keys, database connection strings, internal role/permission logic, model-routing rules, content policies, and tool definitions. Two principles frame this skill:
- The system prompt must never be treated as a secret or used as a security control. If leaking it breaks your security model, the security model is wrong. The real findings during a leakage test are the secrets and logic embedded in the prompt that should have been enforced server-side.
- System prompts are extractable. Through direct requests, instruction-override (jailbreak) framing, translation/encoding tricks, completion attacks, and few-shot replay, adversaries can reliably recover preambles.
This maps to MITRE ATLAS AML.T0057 — LLM Data Leakage: triggering unintentional disclosure (here, of the system prompt and embedded data) through crafted queries. Testing combines manual payloads with automated scanners — garak (NVIDIA's LLM vulnerability scanner) and Promptfoo (red-team eval) provide repeatable extraction probes.
When to Use
- During an LLM application penetration test or red-team engagement (OWASP LLM07 coverage).
- When validating that no secrets, credentials, or authorization logic live in the system prompt.
- When verifying that guardrails block prompt-extraction attempts.
- When building a regression suite that fails the build if a new prompt leaks.
- When assessing multi-agent or RAG apps where the preamble defines tool routing.
What ships with it
4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 8d ago First seen · 212 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 3755ca9c9d01
testing-for-system-prompt-leakage is a skill published in the GitHub repository adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai (57 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 2,081 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks the agent to reveal its instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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