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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization

As of 19 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 42 of 42 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.09577.

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Observation d0935199-67b4-40e0-8aa0-df9c916b9359 · outbound

This paper cites Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 , pages=.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 , pages=

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This paper cites Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security , volume=.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security , volume=

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This paper cites Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , pages=.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , pages=

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This paper cites Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 , pages=.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 , pages=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Electronic Markets , volume=

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Observation 7c166a44-7c49-4227-8099-e153a67090e8 · outbound

This paper cites A Comprehensive Survey on Agent Skills: Taxonomy, Techniques, and Applications.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization A Comprehensive Survey on Agent Skills: Taxonomy, Techniques, and Applications

Reference 6

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This paper cites SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks

Reference 7

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08004 , year=

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This paper cites Agent Skills for Large Language Models: Architecture, Acquisition, Security, and the Path Forward.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Agent Skills for Large Language Models: Architecture, Acquisition, Security, and the Path Forward

Reference 9

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Observation 82d86315-0caa-4e6e-a0d4-e04327f6f605 · outbound

This paper cites Agent Skills in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Security Vulnerabilities at Scale.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Agent Skills in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Security Vulnerabilities at Scale

Reference 10

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Observation b8a1e26b-bf33-4b59-8aba-1b2a5ba0da0e · outbound

This paper cites Agent Skill Security: Threat Models, Attacks, Defenses, and Evaluation.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Agent Skill Security: Threat Models, Attacks, Defenses, and Evaluation

Reference 11

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This paper cites Towards Secure Agent Skills: Architecture, Threat Taxonomy, and Security Analysis.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Towards Secure Agent Skills: Architecture, Threat Taxonomy, and Security Analysis

Reference 12

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Observation 3bdcb86f-cfa0-43b2-9aa2-83734ae7a477 · outbound

This paper cites Prompt Injection Attack to Tool Selection in LLM Agents.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Prompt Injection Attack to Tool Selection in LLM Agents

Reference 13

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Observation 98ea1281-aa7a-4eba-bdd6-1c01ed9417a8 · outbound

This paper cites BadSkill: Backdoor Attacks on Agent Skills via Model-in-Skill Poisoning.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization BadSkill: Backdoor Attacks on Agent Skills via Model-in-Skill Poisoning

Reference 14

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Observation 72d90bee-40e0-49b9-af36-ba1e26a1a8bd · outbound

This paper cites SkillTrojan: Backdoor Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization SkillTrojan: Backdoor Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems

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This paper cites Supply-Chain Poisoning Attacks Against LLM Coding Agent Skill Ecosystems.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Supply-Chain Poisoning Attacks Against LLM Coding Agent Skill Ecosystems

Reference 16

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Observation ffd9718e-cce8-428f-8102-f52ebf6c18cb · outbound

This paper cites Plant, Persist, Trigger: Sleeper Attack on Large Language Model Agents.

ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Plant, Persist, Trigger: Sleeper Attack on Large Language Model Agents

Reference 17

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24) , pages=

Reference 18

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems , volume=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization SkillJect: Effectively Automating Skill-Based Prompt Injection for Skill-Enabled Agents

Reference 20

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Observation b7170c1f-172c-4231-8f7d-262bace5b94c · outbound

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization SkillGuard: A Permission-Centric Framework for Agent Skill Security

Reference 21

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization 2025 , note=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization 2025 , note=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization 2025 , note=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial intelligence , volume=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology , pages=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , volume=

Reference 28

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Pattern Recognition , pages=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems , volume=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Advances in neural information processing systems , volume=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization International Conference on Learning Representations , volume=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization International Conference on Machine Learning , pages=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 , pages=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , volume=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Seeing Is Not Screening: Multimodal Hidden Instruction Attacks on Agent Skill Scanners

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , volume=

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ElasticBack: Stealthy Conditional Backdoor in LLM-Agent Skills via Coupled Trigger-Rule Optimization arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.01909 , year=

Reference 42

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