red-teaming-multi-agent-systems

red-teaming-multi-agent-systems is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security testing method for systems where multiple AI agents exchange messages, delegate work, share memory, or create other agents. It examines attacks that arise when one agent's output becomes another agent's trusted input.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess agent teams, orchestrators, swarms, and agent-to-agent protocols. It helps map communication paths and test how untrusted content can influence other agents or privileged actions.
Why use it?
Connections between agents can create trust and identity problems that do not exist in a single-agent system. Testing those boundaries can reveal instruction injection, impersonation, unsafe delegation, and recursive loops.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess agent teams, orchestrators, swarms, and agent-to-agent protocols. It helps map communication paths and test how untrusted content can influence other agents or privileged actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/red-teaming-multi-agent-systems
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill red-teaming-multi-agent-systems
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00122 $0.01591
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.00636
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00159

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 48355d4cc076, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

red-teaming-multi-agent-systems scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 1mo 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/red-teaming-multi-agent-systems/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Red-teaming multi-agent systems: the edges between agents are attack surface

A single agent has one context to defend. A system of agents has one per agent plus every channel between them, and those channels are the new surface. When one agent's output becomes another's input, and any agent in the chain can be steered by external content, the steering propagates across agents that each "trust" their peer. The vulnerabilities here do not exist in a solo agent; they are born from the wiring.

When to use

  • You are reviewing an orchestrator, a crew/swarm, or an agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol where agents route work to each other.
  • Any pipeline where one agent's output feeds another agent as instructions.
  • Agents share memory, a task queue, or a blackboard, or can spawn or delegate.

Scope check

Test agent systems you own or are authorized to test. Use benign, marked payloads; never drive real privileged actions against systems you do not control. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Map the topology and the trust edges. Diagram every agent and every directed edge: who can message, spawn, or delegate to whom. Mark the edges that cross a trust boundary, where a lower-trust or externally-influenced agent feeds a higher-privileged one. Each edge where output becomes another agent's instructions is an internal injection channel.

  2. Treat every inter-agent message as untrusted content. If agent B acts on agent A's text as instructions, and A can be steered by content it ingests, then an attacker who reaches A reaches B. This is indirect prompt injection with an agent as the carrier: agent-in-the-middle. Test whether a payload planted in A's input changes B's actions.

  3. Test delegation and recursion bounds. Can an agent spawn or delegate without a depth, step, or budget cap? Plant a task that makes agents delegate in a cycle or fan out unboundedly. No cap means a recursive delegation loop, which is both a denial-of-service and a denial-of-wallet.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 132 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 48355d4cc076

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red-teaming-multi-agent-systems is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,591 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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