active defense and adversarial agents: malicious skills

in the previous post we looked at hostname beacons. this time: malicious skills. active defense is the practice of planting traps that force an agent to reveal itself or change the economics of its operation. skills are a high-signal trap because they are mostly run by agents. a human might skim a SKILL.md . an agent is designed to load it and follow it. a strong example is the openclaw / clanker…