agent-threat-rules 4.1.5 → 4.2.1

package/rules/prompt-injection/ATR-2026-02858-context-suppression-directive.yaml

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+title: 'Context-Suppression Directive: Disregard All Other Context or Everything Said So Far'
+id: ATR-2026-02858
+rule_version: 1
+status: experimental
+description: |
+  Technique: an injected directive tries to become the only instruction in force by ordering the model to discard the rest of its context - every other instruction, piece of information or evidence it holds, or everything the user has said so far - before the injected request takes over.
+  WHY THIS TRACE. An injection competes with the deployer's instructions and with the rest of the context. To win it must either negate the prior instructions (covered elsewhere, e.g. "ignore previous instructions") or claim exclusivity over everything else in the context. This rule keys on the second move in its two observed scopes: the competing context ("ignore all other instructions / information / evidence", "disregard any conflicting instructions") and the conversation itself ("forget everything I have told you so far"). The directive has to be an imperative that opens a clause and has to be total: after the object only a model-context scope (in the context, that follow, above, below) or a clause end may follow. That is what separates a reset or an exclusivity claim from a scoped correction ("forget everything I said about the budget", "disregard any other instructions you may have received about the move"), which this rule does not match.
+  RECOVERS two llm-guard fixtures that ATR-2026-00001 Layer 1d caught until PR #327 narrowed that layer: a data poisoning sample that tells the model to ignore all other evidence and instructions, and a multilingual stop-then-extract sample that tells the model to ignore everything the user said (the second was also caught by ATR-2026-00213's bare "system prompt" alternative until PR #427 removed it). The benign text those repairs removed ("ignore all nan values", "ignore all alerts", "disregard everything you were told about the beta API", "ignore everything you read in the first draft", "discard this work", a sentence that merely mentions a system prompt) is in the true negatives.
+  DELIBERATE RECALL BOUNDARY: a qualified override ("ignore all other instructions by the attacker", "disregard any conflicting instructions about data exfiltration policies") is not matched, nor is a declarative third person ("the model will ignore all other context"), nor a question.
+author: ATR Community
+date: 2026/10/15
+schema_version: '0.1'
+detection_tier: pattern
+maturity: test
+severity: medium
+references:
+  owasp_llm:
+    - LLM01:2025
+  owasp_agentic:
+    - ASI01:2026
+  mitre_atlas:
+    - AML.T0051 - LLM Prompt Injection
+    - AML.T0051.000 - Direct
+    - AML.T0051.001 - Indirect
+compliance:
+  eu_ai_act:
+    - article: '15'
+      context: Article 15 (accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity) requires high-risk AI systems to resist attempts by third parties to alter their use or outputs; a directive that orders the model to discard every other instruction or everything said so far is such an attempt, and this rule provides runtime detection evidence for it.
+      strength: primary
+    - article: '9'
+      context: Article 9 (risk management system) requires identified risks to be addressed by appropriate measures; this rule is a runtime risk-treatment control for context-suppression directives in prompts and retrieved content.
+      strength: secondary
+  nist_ai_rmf:
+    - subcategory: MP.5.1
+      context: NIST AI RMF MAP 5.1 requires the likelihood and magnitude of impacts to be identified; detections of context-suppression directives give a measured record of how often this adversarial input class reaches the agent.
+      strength: primary
+    - subcategory: MG.3.2
+      context: NIST AI RMF MANAGE 3.2 is supported where this rule monitors the deployed model's inputs and retrieved content for directives that try to make an injected instruction the only one in force.
+      strength: secondary
+  iso_42001:
+    - clause: '8.1'
+      context: ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.1 (operational planning and control) is operationalised by runtime detection of inputs that order the agent to discard its operating instructions and context.
+      strength: primary
+    - clause: '8.3'
+      context: ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.3 (AI risk treatment) is supported by this rule, which implements runtime detection of context-suppression directives as a treatment control.
+      strength: secondary
+tags:
+  category: prompt-injection
+  subcategory: context-suppression
+  scan_target: mcp
+  confidence: medium
+agent_source:
+  type: llm_io
+  framework:
+    - any
+  provider:
+    - any
+detection:
+  conditions:
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: (?i)(?:^|[.!?;:,"'`]\s*|\n[^\S\n]*|\b(?:and|now|please|then|so|just)\s+)(?:ignore|disregard|discard|forget|dismiss)\s+(?:all|any)\s+(?:of\s+the\s+)?(?:other|remaining|conflicting|contradictory|competing)\s+(?:evidence|information|instructions?|directives?|context)(?:\s+(?:and|or)\s+(?:evidence|information|instructions?|directives?|context))?(?:\s+(?:in|within)\s+(?:the|this|your)\s+(?:context|prompt|conversation)|\s+(?:that|which)\s+(?:will\s+)?follows?|\s+(?:above|below))?\s*(?:[.!;:,"'\)\]\n]|$|and\b|until\b|unless\b|or\b)|(?:^|[.!?;:,"'`]\s*|\n[^\S\n]*|\b(?:and|now|please|then|so|just)\s+)(?:ignore|disregard|forget|discard)\s+(?:about\s+)?(?:everything|all|anything|whatever)\s+(?:that\s+)?(?:i|we)(?:\W?ve|\W?d|\s+have|\s+had)?\s+(?:just\s+|previously\s+|already\s+|ever\s+)?(?:said|told|written|wrote|typed|asked|mentioned|stated)(?:\s+(?:to\s+)?you)?(?:\s+(?:so\s+far|before(?:\s+this(?:\s+(?:line|sentence|message|point))?)?|till\s+now|until\s+now|up\s+(?:to|until)\s+(?:now|this\s+point)|above|earlier|previously))?\s*(?:[.!;:,"'\)\]\n]|$|and\b|now\b|then\b)
+      description: 'Clause-initial imperative (ignore / disregard / discard / forget / dismiss) that is total in scope: all or any OTHER (or remaining / conflicting / competing) evidence, information, instructions, directives or context; or everything (all / anything) I or we said, told, wrote, typed, asked, mentioned or stated - followed only by a model-context scope or a temporal adverb and then a clause end'
+  condition: any
+  false_positives:
+    - A person retracting their own earlier message without naming what they retract ("Sorry, ignore everything I said earlier, I was looking at the wrong file"), in chat or in an email the agent reads. A scoped correction ("forget everything I said about the budget") does not match.
+    - 'A user''s own prompt template that opens by overriding the application''s instructions ("Please ignore all other instructions. I want you to act as ..."). Measured on a 64,777-prompt corpus outside this repository: 2 such templates and 1 role-play reset matched.'
+    - An extraction prompt that limits the model to one field and says nothing after the override ("Extract the invoice total and ignore all other information.").
+    - Security writing or red-team suites that quote the directive verbatim as an imperative sentence.
+response:
+  actions:
+    - alert
+  message_template: '[ATR-2026-02858] Context-suppression directive: the input orders the model to discard all other instructions or everything said so far, so that the instruction that follows is the only one in force.'

package/rules/prompt-injection/ATR-2026-02859-tool-output-agent-role-reassignment.yaml

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+title: Agent Role Reassignment Arriving in Tool Output ("You are now a ... bot")
+id: ATR-2026-02859
+rule_version: 1
+status: experimental
+description: |
+  Technique: content the agent ingests from a tool, retrieval step or MCP server redefines what the agent is - it declares that the agent is now (or is no longer) a particular bot or AI - so that the agent abandons its deployed role and serves the purpose the injected text assigns.
+  WHY THIS TRACE. Repurposing an agent through its input requires stating the new identity: the role-reassignment injection has to say what "you" now are. Because a role is only reassigned to a machine, the rule requires the head of the new role to be bot, chatbot, AI or LLM (optionally AI assistant / agent / model) and requires that noun to end the role phrase - followed by punctuation, an end of input, or a clause that describes the role ("that", "designed", "trained", "named", "for", "with", ...). "You are now an EXPERT on this topic", "you are now a Director", "you are now running as the root user", "you are now a teaching assistant", "you are now a certified chatbot developer" therefore do not match. Bare "assistant" and "agent" are excluded on purpose: they are human job titles in ordinary email.
+  WHY TOOL OUTPUT ONLY. The same sentence typed by the user is the user choosing a persona for their own conversation; on a 64,777-prompt corpus outside this repository 14 user-authored role-play and persona prompts ("You are now a roleplaying ai", "For this chat, you are no longer an AI") contain it. Delivered by a tool result, a web page or an email, a role reassignment addressed to the agent has no legitimate author. The rule therefore declares agent_source mcp_exchange and reads only tool_response.
+  RECOVERS the llm-guard fixture that ATR-2026-00010 Layer 13 ("you are now a|an|the X" in tool output) and ATR-2026-00001 Layer 2 caught until PR #327 narrowed both, and that ATR-2026-00442 caught until PR #309 narrowed its quoted-output branch: an "important update" that turns the agent into a greeting bot. The benign text those repairs removed is in this rule's true negatives.
+author: ATR Community
+date: 2026/10/15
+schema_version: '0.1'
+detection_tier: pattern
+maturity: test
+severity: medium
+references:
+  owasp_llm:
+    - LLM01:2025
+  owasp_agentic:
+    - ASI01:2026
+  mitre_atlas:
+    - AML.T0051 - LLM Prompt Injection
+    - AML.T0051.001 - Indirect
+compliance:
+  eu_ai_act:
+    - article: '15'
+      context: Article 15 (accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity) requires high-risk AI systems to resist attempts by third parties to alter their use; third-party content that reassigns the agent's role is such an attempt, and this rule provides runtime detection evidence for it.
+      strength: primary
+    - article: '9'
+      context: Article 9 (risk management system) requires identified risks to be addressed by appropriate measures; this rule is a runtime risk-treatment control for indirect prompt injection that repurposes the agent.
+      strength: secondary
+  nist_ai_rmf:
+    - subcategory: MP.5.1
+      context: NIST AI RMF MAP 5.1 requires the likelihood and magnitude of impacts to be identified; detections of role reassignment in tool output give a measured record of how often this indirect-injection class reaches the agent.
+      strength: primary
+    - subcategory: MG.3.2
+      context: NIST AI RMF MANAGE 3.2 is supported where this rule monitors the deployed agent's tool and retrieval results for content that redefines the agent's role.
+      strength: secondary
+  iso_42001:
+    - clause: '8.1'
+      context: ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.1 (operational planning and control, including externally provided processes) is operationalised by detecting externally supplied content that reassigns the agent's operating role.
+      strength: primary
+    - clause: '8.3'
+      context: ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.3 (AI risk treatment) is supported by this rule, which implements runtime detection of role-reassignment injections in tool output as a treatment control.
+      strength: secondary
+tags:
+  category: prompt-injection
+  subcategory: indirect-role-reassignment
+  scan_target: mcp
+  confidence: medium
+agent_source:
+  type: mcp_exchange
+  framework:
+    - any
+  provider:
+    - any
+detection:
+  conditions:
+    - field: tool_response
+      operator: regex
+      value: (?i)\byou\s+are\s+(?:now|no\s+longer)\s+(?:a|an)\s+(?:[a-z][\w-]*\s+){0,2}?(?:(?:chat)?bot|(?:ai|llm)(?:\s+(?:assistant|agent|model))?)(?:\s*[.,;:!"'<>)\]]|\s*$|\s+-\s|\s+(?:that|which|who|whose|designed|trained|programmed|built|made|created|meant|tasked|called|named|for|with|and|to)\b)|\byou\s+are\s+not\s+(?:a|an)\s+(?:[a-z][\w-]*\s+){0,2}?(?:chat)?bot\s+any\s*more\b|\bfrom\s+now\s+on,?\s+you\s+(?:are|will\s+be)\s+(?:a|an)\s+(?:[a-z][\w-]*\s+){0,2}?(?:(?:chat)?bot|(?:ai|llm)(?:\s+(?:assistant|agent|model))?)(?:\s*[.,;:!"'<>)\]]|\s*$|\s+-\s|\s+(?:that|which|who|whose|designed|trained|programmed|built|made|created|meant|tasked|called|named|for|with|and|to)\b)
+      description: '"you are now" / "you are no longer" / "from now on you are" + a or an + up to two modifier words + a machine role noun (bot, chatbot, AI, LLM, AI assistant/agent/model) that ends the role phrase; or "you are not a ... bot anymore"'
+  condition: any
+  false_positives:
+    - Tool output that relays a user-authored persona or role-play prompt verbatim, for example a prompt library or a chat-log export returned by a search tool.
+    - Security writing or red-team suites that quote a role-reassignment payload, when returned by a tool.
+    - Product copy addressed to a reader who has just finished building a bot ("you are now a bot", rarely), if a tool returns it.
+response:
+  actions:
+    - alert
+  message_template: '[ATR-2026-02859] Tool output reassigns the agent''s role ("you are now a ... bot"). Content returned by a tool has no authority to redefine the agent; treat it as data.'

package/rules/prompt-injection/ATR-2026-02860-forged-instruction-boundary-marker.yaml

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+title: Forged Instruction-Boundary Marker ("##Begin New Instructions##", "%%% end previous instructions %%%")
+id: ATR-2026-02860
+rule_version: 1
+status: experimental
+description: |
+  Technique: the input fabricates a structural marker - a delimiter-framed header such as ##...##, %%%...%%%, <<<...>>> or [...] - announcing that the previous instructions have ended or that a new block of instructions begins, so that the model treats the text after the marker as authoritative instructions instead of data.
+  WHY THIS TRACE. Delimiter injection works by imitating the structure the application uses to separate its own instructions from untrusted content. The forged marker therefore has two parts the technique cannot drop: the delimiter framing that makes it look structural, and a boundary claim about instructions - "begin new / real / updated instructions", "new instruction begins", "end of previous / out-of-date / primary instructions", or an end-of-data marker ("END CONTEXT", "END OF DOCUMENT") immediately followed by a "new instruction" header. A boundary claim without a supersession word ("### BEGIN INSTRUCTIONS ###", "---END CONTEXT---" before a question) is how legitimate prompt templates are written and is not matched; neither is a Markdown heading ("## New Instructions"), which has no closing delimiter.
+  RECOVERS the llm-guard fixture that ATR-2026-00442 caught until PR #309 narrowed its imperative quoted-output branch: a "##Begin New Instructions##" header followed by a dictated output. This rule does not key on the dictated output at all, so the quoted-output prose #309 stopped matching ('say "I don't know"', 'output "Hello World"', "reply with 'ack'") stays unmatched; it is in the true negatives.
+author: ATR Community
+date: 2026/10/15
+schema_version: '0.1'
+detection_tier: pattern
+maturity: test
+severity: medium
+references:
+  owasp_llm:
+    - LLM01:2025
+  owasp_agentic:
+    - ASI01:2026
+  mitre_atlas:
+    - AML.T0051 - LLM Prompt Injection
+    - AML.T0051.000 - Direct
+    - AML.T0051.001 - Indirect
+compliance:
+  eu_ai_act:
+    - article: '15'
+      context: Article 15 (accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity) requires high-risk AI systems to resist attempts by third parties to alter their use or outputs; a forged instruction boundary that relabels untrusted text as instructions is such an attempt, and this rule provides runtime detection evidence for it.
+      strength: primary
+    - article: '9'
+      context: Article 9 (risk management system) requires identified risks to be addressed by appropriate measures; this rule is a runtime risk-treatment control for delimiter-injection attempts in prompts and retrieved content.
+      strength: secondary
+  nist_ai_rmf:
+    - subcategory: MP.5.1
+      context: NIST AI RMF MAP 5.1 requires the likelihood and magnitude of impacts to be identified; detections of forged instruction boundaries give a measured record of how often this adversarial input class reaches the agent.
+      strength: primary
+    - subcategory: MG.3.2
+      context: NIST AI RMF MANAGE 3.2 is supported where this rule monitors the deployed model's inputs and retrieved content for fabricated instruction delimiters.
+      strength: secondary
+  iso_42001:
+    - clause: '8.1'
+      context: ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.1 (operational planning and control) is operationalised by runtime detection of inputs that imitate the application's instruction/data boundary.
+      strength: primary
+    - clause: '8.3'
+      context: ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.3 (AI risk treatment) is supported by this rule, which implements runtime detection of forged instruction-boundary markers as a treatment control.
+      strength: secondary
+tags:
+  category: prompt-injection
+  subcategory: delimiter-injection
+  scan_target: mcp
+  confidence: medium
+agent_source:
+  type: llm_io
+  framework:
+    - any
+  provider:
+    - any
+detection:
+  conditions:
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: (?i)(?:[#%=*~_|-]{2,8}|<{1,3}|\[{1,2}|\{{1,2})\s*(?:(?:begin(?:ning)?|start)\s+(?:of\s+)?(?:the\s+|a\s+)?(?:new|updated|revised|real|actual|overriding|replacement)\s+(?:system\s+)?(?:instructions?|directives?|prompt)|(?:new|updated|revised|real|actual|overriding|replacement)\s+(?:system\s+)?(?:instructions?|directives?|prompt)\s+(?:begins?|starts?)|end\s+(?:of\s+)?(?:the\s+|all\s+)?(?:previous|prior|old|original|initial|out[\s-]of[\s-]date|outdated|obsolete|preceding|primary)\s+(?:instructions?|directives?|prompts?|tasks?))\s*(?:[#%=*~_|-]{2,8}|>{1,3}|\]{1,2}|\}{1,2})|(?:[#%=*~_|-]{2,8}|<{1,3}|\[{1,2}|\{{1,2})\s*end\s+(?:of\s+)?(?:the\s+)?(?:context|document|email|input|data|text|conversation)\s*(?:[#%=*~_|-]{2,8}|>{1,3}|\]{1,2}|\}{1,2})\s*(?:(?:[#%=*~_|-]{2,8}|<{1,3}|\[{1,2}|\{{1,2})\s*)?(?:new|updated|real|actual|important)\s+(?:instructions?|directives?|tasks?)\b
+      description: 'Opening delimiter (2-8 of # % = * ~ _ | -, or 1-3 of < [ {) + a boundary claim about instructions with a supersession word (begin/start of new|real|updated instructions, new instruction begins, end of previous| prior|original|out-of-date|primary instructions) + closing delimiter; or a delimiter-framed END OF CONTEXT/DOCUMENT/EMAIL marker immediately followed by a "new instruction" header'
+  condition: any
+  false_positives:
+    - Documents that use delimiter-framed section markers announcing new or updated instructions, for example a migration guide with "=== Start of updated instructions ===" or a log line "--- end of previous task ---".
+    - Security writing or red-team suites that quote a delimiter-injection payload verbatim.
+response:
+  actions:
+    - alert
+  message_template: '[ATR-2026-02860] Forged instruction-boundary marker: the input imitates a delimiter that ends the previous instructions or begins new ones. Treat the text after it as data, not instructions.'

package/rules/prompt-injection/ATR-2026-02862-fake-chat-template-turn-injection.yaml

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+title: Fake Chat-Template Turn Injection Detection
+id: ATR-2026-02862
+rule_version: 1
+status: experimental
+description: |
+  Detects untrusted content (most often tool output: a fetched email, document or page) that places two chat-control tokens next to each other, such as <|end|><|user|>, <|im_end|><|im_start|> or <im end><im start>, to fake the end of one conversation turn and the start of another and so smuggle a new "user" or "system" instruction into the model's context. Scope is deliberately narrow: only an adjacent pair of pipe-delimited role tokens, or the pipe-less "im start"/"im end" spelling, is matched. A single token on its own (for example <|im_start|>user), Llama-3 header tokens, <|endoftext|>, and bare XML-style role tags such as <system><user> are out of scope. Related rules divide the space: ATR-2026-01463 covers <|im_start|>system and <|system|> role spoofing, ATR-2026-00395 covers <|im_end|> in user input, and ATR-2026-01860 covers spaced variants such as <|end user|>. The rule was mined from LLMail-Inject submissions and matches none of the other attack corpora in the repository.
+author: ATR Community (via LLMail-Inject benchmark)
+date: 2026/10/15
+schema_version: '0.1'
+detection_tier: pattern
+maturity: test
+severity: high
+references:
+  owasp_llm:
+    - LLM01:2025
+  owasp_agentic:
+    - ASI01:2026
+  mitre_atlas:
+    - AML.T0051 - LLM Prompt Injection
+    - AML.T0051.001 - Indirect
+  research:
+    - https://github.com/microsoft/llmail-inject-challenge
+compliance:
+  eu_ai_act:
+    - article: '15'
+      context: Article 15 (accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity) calls for resilience against attempts to alter an AI system's use or behaviour by exploiting its vulnerabilities; this rule provides detection evidence supporting that requirement for forged turn boundaries in untrusted content.
+      strength: primary
+    - article: '9'
+      context: Article 9 (risk management system) expects identified risks to be monitored; this rule provides detection evidence supporting the monitoring of indirect prompt injection through forged chat-template tokens.
+      strength: secondary
+  nist_ai_rmf:
+    - subcategory: MS.2.7
+      context: NIST AI RMF MEASURE 2.7 (security and resilience evaluated and documented) is supported by this rule's runtime detection of forged chat-template turn boundaries.
+      strength: primary
+    - subcategory: MG.2.3
+      context: NIST AI RMF MANAGE 2.3 (procedures respond to previously unknown identified risks) is supported by detections that surface new turn-forging spellings for response.
+      strength: secondary
+  iso_42001:
+    - clause: '8.1'
+      context: 'Clause 8.1 (operational planning and control): runtime detection of forged chat-control tokens is an operational control on what untrusted content may do to the conversation structure.'
+      strength: primary
+    - clause: '6.2'
+      context: 'Clause 6.2 (AI objectives and planning to achieve them): detections from this rule give measurable input to objectives for resisting indirect prompt injection.'
+      strength: secondary
+tags:
+  category: prompt-injection
+  subcategory: chat-template-turn-injection
+  scan_target: mcp
+  confidence: high
+agent_source:
+  type: llm_io
+  framework:
+    - openai
+    - anthropic
+    - langchain
+    - llamaindex
+    - autogen
+    - crewai
+  provider:
+    - any
+detection:
+  conditions:
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: (?i)(?:<\|\s*(?:im[_ ]?start|im[_ ]?end|end|system|assistant|user)\s*\|?>|<\s*im[_ ]?(?:start|end)\s*\|?>)\s*(?:<\|\s*(?:im[_ ]?start|im[_ ]?end|end|system|assistant|user)\s*\|?>|<\s*im[_ ]?(?:start|end)\s*\|?>)
+      description: Fabricated adjacent chat-control tokens simulating a conversation turn boundary to smuggle a new instruction
+  condition: any
+  false_positives:
+    - Chat-template documentation, model cards, tokenizer tutorials or raw prompt logs that show a closing and an opening token next to each other, such as <|im_end|> followed by a real line break and <|im_start|>
+    - Fine-tuning datasets or exported transcripts in ChatML form that are returned by a tool as data rather than injected as instructions
+    - Security write-ups that quote a turn-forging payload verbatim
+response:
+  actions:
+    - alert
+    - snapshot
+    - escalate
+  auto_response_threshold: high
+  message_template: '[ATR-2026-02862] Fake Chat-Template Turn Injection Detection detected.'
+confidence: 85

package/rules/skill-compromise/ATR-2026-00060-skill-impersonation.yaml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ references:
     - ASI04:2026
   mitre_atlas:
     - AML.T0010 - AI Supply Chain Compromise
-    - AML.T0104 - Publish Poisoned AI Agent Tool
+    - 'AML.T0115.002 - Publish Poisoned AI Artifacts: AI Agent Tools'
     - AML.T0010.005 - AI Supply Chain Compromise of AI Agent Tool
   mitre_attack:
     - T1195 - Supply Chain Compromise

package/rules/skill-compromise/ATR-2026-00063-skill-chain-attack.yaml

@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ detection:
       value: (?i)(send[_-]?(email|message|webhook|http|request)|upload|post[_-]?data|transmit|exfil)
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(?=[\s\S]*(?<![a-z])\.env)(?=[\s\S]*(base64|btoa|encodeURI|hex\.encode|rot13|xor|compress|gzip|deflate|encrypt|webhook|ngrok|requestbin|pipedream|hookbin|burpcollaborator|interact\.sh|\boast\b|curl|wget|\bnc\b|exfil|upload))
-      description: Dotenv file access ONLY when chained with an obfuscation-or-egress indicator in the same args (multi-step access-then-obfuscate-then-egress chain). A bare startup-style dotenv reference no longer fires alone; the dangerous egress half is now required to flag this composite data-egress signal.
+      value: (?i)^(?=[\s\S]*(?<![a-z])\.env)(?=[\s\S]*(base64|btoa|encodeURI|hex\.encode|rot13|xor|compress|gzip|deflate|encrypt|webhook|ngrok|requestbin|pipedream|hookbin|burpcollaborator|interact\.sh|\boast\b|curl|wget|\bnc\b|exfil|upload))
+      description: 'Dotenv file access ONLY when chained with an obfuscation-or-egress indicator in the same args (multi-step access-then-obfuscate-then-egress chain). A bare startup-style dotenv reference no longer fires alone; the dangerous egress half is now required to flag this composite data-egress signal. Anchored with ^: the pattern is two lookaheads that each begin with [\s\S]*, so if both hold at some offset they also hold at offset 0, but unanchored the engine retried both scans from every start offset, which is quadratic in input length (each doubling took about four times as long: in V8 0.8s at 32K chars, 3.4s at 64K) and was 16% of all CPU in the benign-corpus FP scan. Anchored it is linear and returns the same verdict for every input.'
   condition: any
   false_positives:
     - Legitimate backup or migration workflows that read, compress, and transfer files

package/rules/skill-compromise/ATR-2026-00064-over-permissioned-skill.yaml

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ detection:
       value: (?i)(sudo|runas|doas|pkexec|gsudo)\s+
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(chmod\s+(?:[2467][0-7]{3}|[0-7]{0,3}7[0-7]{0,2})|chmod\s+[ug]?\+[sx]|chown\s+root|setcap\s)
+      value: (?i)(chmod\s+(?:[0-7]?[0-7]{2}[2367]|[2467][0-7]{3})(?:[^0-7]|$)|chmod\s+(?:-[-\w]+\s+)+(?:[0-7]?[0-7]{2}[2367]|[2467][0-7]{3})\s+(?:/(?:[\s"'*;]|$)|/(?:etc|usr|var|bin|sbin|boot|lib|opt|root|home|srv)\b|~|\$HOME)|chmod\s+[ug]?\+[sx]|chown\s+root|setcap\s)
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
       value: (?i)(iptables|ufw|firewall-cmd|netsh\s+advfirewall|pfctl)\s

package/rules/skill-compromise/ATR-2026-00066-parameter-injection.yaml

@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ detection:
       value: (?i)(;|&&|\|\||`|\$\()\s*(whoami|\bid\b|uname\s+-a|curl\s+(?:-\S+\s+)*https?://(?!localhost|127\.)|wget\s+https?://(?!localhost|127\.)|\bnc\b\s|ncat\s|cat\s+/etc/(?:passwd|shadow|sudoers)|\b(?:ba)?sh\s+-[ic]|python[0-9]?\s+-c|base64\s+-d|rm\s+-[rf])
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)('\s*(OR|AND|UNION)\s+'|'?\s*;\s*(DROP|DELETE|INSERT|UPDATE|ALTER|CREATE)\s|--\s*[;\"'\)\]]|/\*.*\*/)
+      value: (?i)('\s*(OR|AND|UNION)\s+'|;\s*(DROP|DELETE|INSERT|UPDATE|ALTER|CREATE)\s|--\s*[;\"'\)\]]|/\*.*\*/)
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
       value: (\.\./|\.\.\\){2,}|(\.\.(/|\\)){2,}(etc|windows|usr|home|root|var|tmp)
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(\{\{.*\}\}|\$\{IFS|\$\{[^}]*[`(]|\$\{[^}]*jndi:|\$\([^)]*[A-Za-z]|<%.*%>|#\{.*\}|\{%.*%\})
+      value: (?i)((?:^|[^{])\{\{.*\}\}|\$\{IFS|\$\{[^}]*[`(]|\$\{[^}]*jndi:|\$\([^)]*[A-Za-z]|<%.*%>|#\{.*\}|\{%.*%\})
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
       value: (?i)(\x00|%00|\\0|null\s*byte|\\u0000)

package/rules/skill-compromise/ATR-2026-00149-skill-exfil-compound.yaml

@@ -78,15 +78,15 @@ detection:
       description: SSH directory archive — skills should not archive user SSH keys
     - field: content
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(find|ls|cat|strings)\s+[^\n]*(wallet\.dat|seed\.txt|mnemonic|keystore)[^\n]*(\||>|>>|curl|wget|fetch|POST)
+      value: (?i)(find|ls|cat|strings)\s+(?:\S[^\n]*)?(wallet\.dat|seed\.txt|mnemonic|keystore)[^\n]*(\||>|>>|curl|wget|fetch|POST)
       description: Crypto wallet file enumeration and exfiltration
     - field: content
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)sqlite3\s+[^\n]*(Cookies|Login\s*Data|cookies\.sqlite|places\.sqlite)
+      value: (?i)sqlite3\s+(?:\S[^\n]*)?(Cookies|Login\s*Data|cookies\.sqlite|places\.sqlite)
       description: Browser cookie/credential database access
     - field: content
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(?:^|[\n;&|])\s*(?:dig|nslookup|host)\b[^\n]{0,40}?\$[{(][^\n]{0,40}[.][a-z]
+      value: (?i)(?:^|[\n;&|])[^\S\n]*(?:dig|nslookup|host)\b[^\n]{0,40}?\$[{(][^\n]{0,40}[.][a-z]
       description: DNS exfiltration via encoded subdomain queries (shell var embedded in a queried hostname, command-position only)
     - field: content
       operator: regex
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ detection:
       description: Cloud instance metadata service access (IMDS credential theft)
     - field: content
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)cat\s+[^|\n]*\.(env|bashrc|zshrc|npmrc)[^|\n]*\|\s*(curl|wget|nc|python|base64)
+      value: (?i)cat\s+(?:[^\s|][^|\n]*)?\.(env|bashrc|zshrc|npmrc)[^|\n]*\|\s*(curl|wget|nc|python|base64)
       description: Environment file bulk read piped to exfiltration
     - field: content
       operator: regex
@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ detection:
       description: Multi-file sensitive data collection in single cat command
     - field: content
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)\[SYSTEM\]\s*[^\n]*(?:previous\s+instructions|new\s+directive|ignore\s+(?:all\s+)?previous|you\s+are\s+now)
+      value: (?i)\[SYSTEM\]\s*(?:\S[^\n]*)?(?:previous\s+instructions|new\s+directive|ignore\s+(?:all\s+)?previous|you\s+are\s+now)
       description: Fake [SYSTEM] block attempting to override instructions
     - field: content
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)<!--\s*(?![^>]*(?:https?://|!\[|\]\())[A-Za-z0-9+/]{40,}={0,2}\s*-->
+      value: (?i)<!--(?![^>]*(?:https?://|!\[|\]\())\s*[A-Za-z0-9+/]{40,}={0,2}\s*-->
       description: Base64-encoded hidden instruction in HTML comment — narrowed to require the comment be (essentially) JUST the blob. Previously any 40+ char alphanumeric run anywhere inside an HTML comment matched, which caught ordinary shields.io/markdown badge comments (e.g. '<!-- ![GitHub Downloads](https://img.shields.io/...) -->') whose long URL query string looks base64-shaped by character class alone.
     - field: content
       operator: regex

package/rules/skill-compromise/ATR-2026-00223-reverse-shell-dropper.yaml

@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ detection:
       description: Base64 decode piped to shell execution
     - field: content
       operator: regex
-      value: curl\s+[^\n]*\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}[^|]*\|[^|]*(bash|sh)
+      value: curl\s+(?:\S[^\n]*)?\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}[^|]*\|[^|]*(bash|sh)
       description: Curl from raw IP address piped to shell
     - field: content
       operator: regex
-      value: '[A-Za-z0-9+/]{50,}=*\s*\|\s*base64\s+-D'
+      value: '[A-Za-z0-9+/]{50}=*\s*\|\s*base64\s+-D'
       description: Long base64 encoded payload being decoded
     - field: content
       operator: regex

package/rules/skill-compromise/ATR-2026-01755-backdoor-pot-linguistic-trigger-phrase.yaml

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ detection:
       description: Variant of prism-of-insight trigger with synonym substitution
     - field: user_input
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)\bconducting\s+(a|an)?\s*(comprehensive|thorough)\s+(elucidation|explication|exposition)\b
+      value: (?i)\bconducting\s+(?:(a|an)\s*)?(comprehensive|thorough)\s+(elucidation|explication|exposition)\b
       description: Variant of conducting-comprehensive-elucidation trigger (requires 'conducting' verb anchor)
   condition: any
   false_positives:

package/rules/skill-compromise/ATR-2026-01756-backdoor-pot-symbol-emoticon-trigger.yaml

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ detection:
       description: ASB canonical @_@ trigger — rare in organic text, specific POT artifact
     - field: user_input
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)^.{15,}[.!?]?\s+:(?:[)DoP])\s*\.?\s*$
+      value: (?i)^.{15}(?:.*\S)?[.!?]?\s+:(?:[)DoP])\s*(?:\.\s*)?$
       description: Emoticon :) appended as terminal suffix to a task request (≥15 char task prefix)
   condition: any
   semantic:

package/rules/skill-compromise/ATR-2026-02261-code-credential-exfil-chain.yaml

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ detection:
   conditions:
     - field: content
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(?:const\s+|let\s+|var\s+)?([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)\s*=\s*(?:os\.environ(?:\.get)?\s*[\(\[]\s*['"][A-Z0-9_]*(?:SECRET|TOKEN|API[_-]?KEY|PASSWORD|PASSWD|CREDENTIAL|PRIVATE[_-]?KEY|ACCESS[_-]?KEY|AUTH_?TOKEN)|process\.env\.[A-Z0-9_]*(?:SECRET|TOKEN|API[_-]?KEY|PASSWORD|CREDENTIAL|PRIVATE[_-]?KEY|ACCESS[_-]?KEY)|getenv\s*\(\s*['"][A-Z0-9_]*(?:SECRET|TOKEN|API[_-]?KEY|PASSWORD|CREDENTIAL)|(?:open|readFileSync|read_file)\s*\([^)\n]{0,60}(?:\.aws/credentials|\.ssh/id_[a-z0-9]+|\.netrc|credentials\.json))[\s\S]{0,160}?(?:base64\.(?:b64encode|standard_b64encode|encodebytes)\s*\(\s*\1\b|Buffer\.from\s*\(\s*\1\b[^)]*\)\.toString\s*\(\s*['"]base64|btoa\s*\(\s*\1\b|binascii\.(?:hexlify|b2a_base64)\s*\(\s*\1\b|\1\.encode\s*\(\s*['"]base64['"])[\s\S]{0,160}?(?:requests\.(?:post|put|patch)|httpx\.(?:post|put)|urllib\.request\.urlopen|urllib2\.urlopen|http\.client\.HTTPS?Connection|aiohttp\.[A-Za-z_]*\.(?:post|put)|fetch\s*\(|axios\.(?:post|put)|\.sendall\s*\(|\.sendto\s*\()
+      value: (?i)(?:^|[^\w$])(?:const\s+|let\s+|var\s+)?([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)\s*=\s*(?:os\.environ(?:\.get)?\s*[\(\[]\s*['"][A-Z0-9_]*(?:SECRET|TOKEN|API[_-]?KEY|PASSWORD|PASSWD|CREDENTIAL|PRIVATE[_-]?KEY|ACCESS[_-]?KEY|AUTH_?TOKEN)|process\.env\.[A-Z0-9_]*(?:SECRET|TOKEN|API[_-]?KEY|PASSWORD|CREDENTIAL|PRIVATE[_-]?KEY|ACCESS[_-]?KEY)|getenv\s*\(\s*['"][A-Z0-9_]*(?:SECRET|TOKEN|API[_-]?KEY|PASSWORD|CREDENTIAL)|(?:open|readFileSync|read_file)\s*\([^)\n]{0,60}(?:\.aws/credentials|\.ssh/id_[a-z0-9]+|\.netrc|credentials\.json))[\s\S]{0,160}?(?:base64\.(?:b64encode|standard_b64encode|encodebytes)\s*\(\s*\1\b|Buffer\.from\s*\(\s*\1\b[^)]*\)\.toString\s*\(\s*['"]base64|btoa\s*\(\s*\1\b|binascii\.(?:hexlify|b2a_base64)\s*\(\s*\1\b|\1\.encode\s*\(\s*['"]base64['"])[\s\S]{0,160}?(?:requests\.(?:post|put|patch)|httpx\.(?:post|put)|urllib\.request\.urlopen|urllib2\.urlopen|http\.client\.HTTPS?Connection|aiohttp\.[A-Za-z_]*\.(?:post|put)|fetch\s*\(|axios\.(?:post|put)|\.sendall\s*\(|\.sendto\s*\()
       description: 'Ordered chain: secret read into a variable -> that SAME variable base64/hex-encoded (backreference-bound) -> outbound network send, within a bounded window. The backreference (\1) is what keeps the encode stage tied to the secret: a skill that reads a token for SDK auth but base64-encodes an UNRELATED image/file and POSTs it (a very common legitimate upload pattern) no longer matches, because the encoded operand is a different variable than the one holding the secret.'
   condition: all
   false_positives:

package/rules/tool-poisoning/ATR-2026-00012-unauthorized-tool-call.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 title: Unauthorized Tool Call Detection
 id: ATR-2026-00012
-rule_version: 2
+rule_version: 3
 status: experimental
 description: |
   Detects unauthorized or malicious tool call attempts including parameter injection, path traversal, shell injection in string parameters, privilege escalation via parameter manipulation, tool enumeration/discovery, SQL injection in tool arguments, LDAP injection, template injection, environment variable extraction, file operation abuse, and serialization attacks. This rule focuses on parameter-level attacks rather than tool name matching, since tool names are easily changed but injection patterns in arguments are structurally consistent across attack variants.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ author: ATR Community
 date: 2026/03/08
 schema_version: '0.1'
 detection_tier: pattern
-maturity: test
+maturity: experimental
 severity: high
 references:
   owasp_llm:
@@ -64,12 +64,12 @@ detection:
   conditions:
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (\.\.[\/\\]){2,}|\.\.[\/\\][^\s]*[\/\\](etc|proc|root|sys|var|home|tmp|boot|dev|usr|opt|passwd|shadow|hosts)[\/\\]?|~[\/\\]\.\.[\/\\]
-      description: Path traversal sequences targeting sensitive directories
+      value: (\.\.[\/\\]){4,}|\.\.[\/\\][^\s"'`]{0,60}[\/\\](etc|proc|root|boot|passwd|shadow|hosts)[\/\\]?|~[\/\\]\.\.[\/\\]
+      description: Path traversal that either goes 4+ levels up or lands on a sensitive root (v3 tightened, strict subset of v2). v2's bare `(\.\./){2,}` fired on every markdown relative link (`](../../CONNECTORS.md)`) — 147 of its 155 benign hits — and its target list included `var|home|tmp|dev|usr|opt|sys`, which are ordinary directory names in a RELATIVE source path (`../figma-use/references/var`). Both were removed; the traversal-to-sensitive-root form and `~/../` are kept.
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (;|&&|\|\|)\s*(?:sudo\s+)?(?:curl\s+(?:-\S+\s+)*['"]?https?://(?!localhost|127\.0\.0\.1|0\.0\.0\.0)|wget\s+(?:-\S+\s+)*['"]?https?://(?!localhost|127\.)|\bnc\b\s+-?[a-z0-9]|ncat\s+\S|\b(?:ba)?sh\s+-[ic]|python[0-9]?\s+-c|perl\s+-e|ruby\s+-e|node\s+-e|\beval\s|rm\s+-[rf]|cat\s+/etc/(?:passwd|shadow|sudoers)|whoami|\bid\b\s*(?:;|&|\||$)|uname\s+-a|base64\s+(?:-d|--decode)|ifconfig|>&\s*/dev/tcp)|[$`]\([^)`]{0,80}(?:curl|wget|\bnc\b|\bbash\b|\bsh\s+-|whoami|\bid\b|base64\s+-d|/etc/(?:passwd|shadow))
-      description: Shell metacharacter chained to a genuinely dangerous command — external network fetch, pipe-to-shell / interpreter one-liner, recon (whoami/id/uname -a), or sensitive-file read (v2 tightened; legit build chains like "npm i && bash setup.sh", "&& python -m pytest", "| jq" no longer fire)
+      value: (;|&&|\|\|)\s*(?:sudo\s+)?(?:curl\s+(?:-\S+\s+)*['"]?https?://(?!localhost|127\.0\.0\.1|0\.0\.0\.0)|wget\s+(?:-\S+\s+)*['"]?https?://(?!localhost|127\.)|\bnc\b\s+-?[a-z0-9]|ncat\s+\S|\b(?:ba)?sh\s+-[ic]|python[0-9]?\s+-c|perl\s+-e|ruby\s+-e|node\s+-e|\beval\s+["'$`(]|rm\s+-[rf]{1,2}\s+(?:-\S+\s+)*(?:/\s|/\*|~|\$HOME|\*|/(?:etc|var|usr|home|root|bin|Users)\b)|cat\s+/etc/(?:passwd|shadow|sudoers)|whoami|\bid\b\s*(?:;|&|\||$)|uname\s+-a|base64\s+(?:-d|--decode)|ifconfig|>&\s*/dev/tcp)|[$`]\([^)`]{0,80}(?:\bnc\b|\b(?:ba)?sh\s+-[ic]|whoami|base64\s+-d|/etc/(?:passwd|shadow))
+      description: 'Shell metacharacter chained to a genuinely dangerous command — external network fetch, pipe-to-shell / interpreter one-liner, recon (whoami/uname -a), or sensitive-file read. v2 tightened the `;|&&|||` branch (legit build chains like "npm i && bash setup.sh" no longer fire). v3 is a further strict subset: (a) the command-substitution branch drops `\bid\b` (matched the identifier `Id` in `$(aws ... --query ''Accounts[*].Id'')` and `${trade.id}`), `\bbash\b` (matched `$(gh completion -s bash)`), `\bsh\s+-` (matched the filename in `$(scripts/filter-sessions.sh -x)`) and `curl|wget` (15 hits — `MODEL_ID=$(curl -fsS "$BASE_URL/v1/models")` is the ordinary capture-a-response idiom and carries no execution); (b) `rm\s+-[rf]` now needs a root/home/wildcard target, because `&& rm -rf ./skills/my-skill` is normal cleanup; (c) `\beval\s` now needs an actual argument, because it matched the prose "**uv**; eval deps:".'
     - field: tool_name
       operator: regex
       value: (?i)^(admin_|root_|sudo_|system_|internal_|debug_|maintenance_|privileged_|superuser_|__)
@@ -80,36 +80,36 @@ detection:
       description: Tool enumeration attempts to discover available attack surface
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)('\s*(OR|AND|UNION)\s+['"]?\d|"\s*(OR|AND|UNION)\s+['"]?\d|\b(UNION\s+(ALL\s+)?SELECT|INSERT\s+INTO|UPDATE\s+.*\s+SET|DELETE\s+FROM|DROP\s+(TABLE|DATABASE)|ALTER\s+TABLE|EXEC(UTE)?\s+|xp_cmdshell)\b|;\s*(DROP|DELETE|INSERT|UPDATE|ALTER|EXEC)\b)
-      description: SQL injection patterns in tool parameters
+      value: (?i)(['"]\s*(OR|AND)\s+['"]?\d+\s*['"]?\s*(=|<|>|--|\)|;|\bLIKE\b)|['"]\s*(UNION\s+(ALL\s+)?SELECT|INSERT\s+INTO|DELETE\s+FROM|UPDATE\s+\w{1,64}\s+SET|DROP\s+(TABLE|DATABASE)|ALTER\s+TABLE)\b[^\n]{0,160}(--|\/\*)|\bUNION\s+(ALL\s+)?SELECT\b|\bxp_cmdshell\b|;\s*(DROP\s+(TABLE|DATABASE)|DELETE\s+FROM|INSERT\s+INTO|UPDATE\s+\w{1,64}\s+SET|ALTER\s+TABLE|EXEC(UTE)?\s+(xp_|sp_))\b)
+      description: 'SQL injection in a tool parameter: quote-break tautology, quote-break followed by a DML/DDL statement, UNION SELECT, xp_cmdshell, or a stacked statement after `;`. v3 is a strict subset of v2. v2 matched BARE SQL keywords, which is not injection — `EXEC(UTE)?\s+` matched the English word "execute " (≈864 of its 1,139 benign hits, e.g. "you execute them automatically"), and `UPDATE\s+.*\s+SET` had an unbounded `.*` that spans a whole JSON-encoded document (src/hook-handler.ts encodes a newline as the two characters \ and n, so `.` never stops). Bare INSERT INTO / DELETE FROM / ALTER TABLE / DROP TABLE now require a quote-break AND a SQL comment terminator, or a stacked `;` in front. The tautology branch additionally requires a comparison or terminator after the digit: v2''s `["'']\s*(OR|AND)\s+["'']?\d` matched ordinary English — `"Cinematic braam, horror" or "8-bit retro jump sound"`, `period: "30d" or "7d"`, `choose 0.3" or 0.5" gaps`.'
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(\$\{?\w*(KEY|TOKEN|SECRET|PASSWORD|PASS|PWD|CREDENTIAL|AUTH|API_KEY|ACCESS_KEY|PRIVATE)\w*\}?|process\.env\.|os\.environ|System\.getenv|ENV\[|getenv\s*\()
-      description: Attempts to extract environment variables containing secrets
+      value: (?i)(\$\{?\w*(SECRET|CREDENTIAL|ACCESS_KEY|PRIVATE|PASSWORD|PASSWD)\w*\}?|(process\.env\.|os\.environ\s*[\[\.]\s*\\?['"]?|System\.getenv\s*\(\s*\\?['"]?|getenv\s*\(\s*\\?['"]?|ENV\[\s*\\?['"]?)\w*(SECRET|CREDENTIAL|ACCESS_KEY|PRIVATE|PASSWORD|PASSWD)\w*|(dict|list|str|json\.dumps|pprint|print)\s*\(\s*os\.environ|os\.environ\.(items|copy|keys|values)\s*\()
+      description: 'Reference to a secret-bearing environment variable, or a wholesale dump of the environment. v3 is a strict subset of v2. v2 fired on the language construct alone — `process.env.` (167 benign hits), `os.environ` (51), `System.getenv` (12), `getenv(` (7) — and on the generic words KEY|TOKEN|PASS|PWD|AUTH, which match `$HF_TOKEN`, `${token}`, `$ai_input_tokens`, `${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}`: every integration doc on earth reads an API key from the environment, so those forms carry no attack signal. The env-reading constructs now have to name a secret-bearing variable, and a whole-environment dump (dict(os.environ), os.environ.items()) fires on its own. RESIDUAL BY DESIGN: bare `${OPENAI_API_KEY}` / `$GITHUB_TOKEN` references no longer fire here — see the dedicated exfiltration rules ATR-2026-00115, ATR-2026-01892, ATR-2026-02262, which require an egress sink.'
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)([\/\\](etc[\/\\](passwd|shadow|sudoers|ssh[\/\\]|ssl[\/\\])|proc[\/\\](self[\/\\]|\d+[\/\\])(environ|cmdline|maps|fd)|root[\/\\]\.(bash_history|ssh)|\.env|\.git[\/\\]config|\.aws[\/\\]credentials|\.ssh[\/\\](id_rsa|authorized_keys)|wp-config\.php|\.htpasswd|\.netrc|\.pgpass))
-      description: Access to known sensitive files (credentials, config, keys)
+      value: (?i)([\/\\](etc[\/\\](passwd|shadow|sudoers|ssh[\/\\]|ssl[\/\\])|proc[\/\\](self[\/\\]|\d+[\/\\])(environ|cmdline|maps|fd)|root[\/\\]\.(bash_history|ssh)|\.git[\/\\]config|\.aws[\/\\]credentials|\.ssh[\/\\](id_rsa|authorized_keys)|wp-config\.php|\.htpasswd|\.netrc|\.pgpass)|(\.\.[\/\\]){2,}[^\s"'`]{0,40}\.env\b)
+      description: 'Access to known sensitive files (credentials, config, keys). v3 is a strict subset of v2: the bare `[\/\\]\.env` alternative (42 of v2''s 65 benign hits) now requires a 2+ level traversal in front, because `./.env`, `assets/.env.example`, `~/.env` and `docker compose --env-file ../.env` are how every project documents and wires its own configuration.'
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (\{\{.*?(config|self|request|__class__|__builtins__|__import__|lipsum|cycler|joiner|namespace).*?\}\}|\$\{.*?(Runtime|ProcessBuilder|getClass|forName|exec).*?\}|<%.*?(Runtime|exec|system|eval).*?%>)
-      description: Server-side template injection (Jinja2, Java EL, JSP)
+      value: (\{\{[^{}]{0,120}((config|self|request)\s*[\.\[]\s*\\?['"]?_|__class__|__builtins__|__import__|lipsum|cycler|joiner|namespace)[^{}]{0,120}\}\}|\$\{[^{}]{0,100}(Runtime|ProcessBuilder|getClass|forName)[^{}]{0,100}\}|<%[^%]{0,120}(Runtime|exec|system|eval)[^%]{0,120}%>)
+      description: 'Server-side template injection (Jinja2, Java EL, JSP). v3 is a strict subset of v2: v2''s unbounded lazy `.*?` gaps let a match start at a JavaScript template literal (`${config.name}`) and run forward across a whole JSON-encoded document until it found the literal word "exec" and any later closing brace — 349 of its 372 benign hits came from the `pre-tool-json-arg` shape for exactly that reason. The gaps are now brace-bounded and length-bounded, and `exec` is dropped from the `${...}` branch (Java EL RCE still matches on Runtime / ProcessBuilder / getClass / forName). `config` / `self` / `request` also have to be followed by an attribute access into a dunder — bare `{{ github.event.pull_request.title }}`, `{{config_file}}`, `{{ config(materialized=''view'') }}` (dbt) and `{{.Config.User}}` (Docker Go template) are template placeholders, not Jinja2 sandbox escapes.'
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(O:\d+:\s*"|a:\d+:\s*\{|rO0ABX|aced0005|\{\s*"__type"\s*:|\{\s*"\$type"\s*:|yaml\.unsafe_load|pickle\.loads|unserialize\s*\(|Marshal\.load|ObjectInputStream)
-      description: Serialized object injection (PHP, Java, Python pickle, YAML, .NET)
+      value: (?i)(O:\d+:\s*"|a:\d+:\s*\{|rO0ABX|aced0005|\{\s*"__type"\s*:|yaml\.unsafe_load|pickle\.loads|unserialize\s*\(|Marshal\.load|ObjectInputStream)
+      description: 'Serialized object injection (PHP, Java, Python pickle, YAML, .NET). v3 is a strict subset of v2: `{"$type":` is dropped — the W3C Design Tokens format uses `"$type"` as an ordinary schema key, so it is not evidence of .NET TypeNameHandling deserialization on its own.'
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(\*\)\(|\)\(|\|\s*\(|&\s*\(|\(\|\(|\(&\().*?(objectClass|uid|cn|sn|mail|userPassword|memberOf)\s*[=~<>]
-      description: LDAP filter injection patterns
+      value: (?i)(\*\)\(|\(\|\(|\(&\()[^()]{0,60}(objectClass|uid|cn|sn|userPassword|memberOf)\s*[=~<>]
+      description: LDAP filter injection patterns. v3 is a strict subset of v2. v2's anchors included a bare `\)\(`, `\|\s*\(` and `&\s*\(` — `require('stripe')('sk_...')`, `sequenceS(validation)({...})` and JSX `&& (` all match — and the following `.*?` was unbounded, so it ran across a whole JSON-encoded document to find any later `mail=` / `uid=`. The gap is now paren-bounded and length-bounded, only the three genuinely LDAP-shaped anchors remain, and the English word `mail` is dropped from the attribute list.
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(@|%40)(localhost|127\.0\.0\.1|0\.0\.0\.0|internal|intranet|corp|private)|\\@(localhost|127)|url\s*=\s*['"]?(file|gopher|dict|ftp|ldap|tftp)://
-      description: URL manipulation to access internal resources via @ notation or exotic protocols
+      value: (?i)(https?|ftp|gopher|dict|ldap|tftp)://[^\s/"'<>]{0,120}(@|%40)(localhost|127\.0\.0\.1|0\.0\.0\.0|internal|intranet|corp|private)|url\s*=\s*['"]?(file|gopher|dict|ftp|ldap|tftp)://
+      description: 'URL manipulation to access internal resources via @ userinfo notation or exotic protocols. v3 is a strict subset of v2: the `@host` form now has to sit inside an actual URL. v2 matched a bare `@localhost` / `@corp` / `@private` anywhere, i.e. the e-mail address `admin@localhost.com`, the npm scope `@private/auth-form` and the connection string `postgresql://user:pass@localhost:5432/db`.'
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
-      value: (?i)(\*\s*;|\*\s*&&|\*\s*\|\||\bfind\s+/\s+-name|\bfind\s+/\s+-exec|\bxargs\s+|\bglob\s*\(.{0,20}\*\*)
-      description: Wildcard and glob patterns combined with shell execution
+      value: (?i)(\bfind\s+/\s+-name|\bfind\s+/\s+-exec|\bxargs\s+(-\S+\s+)*(rm|sh|bash|zsh|curl|wget|chmod|chown|dd|cat|base64|nc)\b|\*\s*(;|&&|\|\|)\s*(rm|curl|wget|sh|bash|nc|cat|python|perl|tar|zip|base64)\b)
+      description: Wildcard / glob combined with an actually dangerous command. v3 is a strict subset of v2. v2 fired on `\*\s*;` (44 benign hits — any `**;` in markdown or code), on a bare `\bxargs\s+` (15 hits — `find . -name "*.py" | xargs grep -l` is ordinary shell), and on `glob(...**` (ordinary globbing in application code). The chain now has to end in a destructive/exfiltrating command.
     - field: tool_args
       operator: regex
       value: (?i)(admin\s*=\s*(true|1|yes)|role\s*=\s*(admin|root|superuser|system)|is_admin\s*=\s*(true|1)|privilege\s*=\s*(elevated|admin|root|full)|permission\s*=\s*(all|\*|admin|root)|access_level\s*=\s*(admin|root|full|unlimited))
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ response:
     - alert
     - snapshot
     - escalate
-  actions_rationale: 'response-action eligibility (docs/RESPONSE-ACTION-ELIGIBILITY.md): benign FP 1672/5352 = 31.24% (partial measurement — a lower bound) exceeds the 2% automatic-demotion line; ceiling = observe. Removed block_tool(interrupt). Detection unchanged — recall cost is zero.'
+  actions_rationale: 'response-action eligibility (docs/RESPONSE-ACTION-ELIGIBILITY.md): block_tool(interrupt) was removed when rule_version 2 measured 1672/5352 = 31.24% benign FP, over the 2% automatic-demotion line. rule_version 3 measures 150/14157 = 1.06% (partial measurement: the tool_name conditions are not measurable on a text corpus) and is maturity experimental; its detection fingerprint is new, so until data/benign-fp-measurement.json is regenerated the gate treats it as unmeasured and the ceiling is observe. alert, snapshot and escalate are all observe-tier.'
   auto_response_threshold: high
   message_template: |
     [ATR-2026-012] Unauthorized tool call detected. Rule: ATR-2026-012. Tool: {tool_name}. Pattern: {matched_pattern}. This rule no longer blocks the tool; it alerts and snapshots. The hook may still deny on severity — see docs/RESPONSE-ACTION-ELIGIBILITY.md.