diff --git a/src/rules.js b/src/rules.js
index 4b68b00..80e6897 100644
--- a/src/rules.js
+++ b/src/rules.js
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ export const RULES = [
     remediation: "The skill text describes sending secrets/tokens/credentials somewhere. Treat as malicious until proven otherwise.",
     pattern: /(exfiltrate|leak|send|upload|post|forward)\b[^.\n]{0,30}(secret|token|password|credential|private\s*key|api[\s_-]?key|\.env)/gi },
 
+  { id: "SKILL-INJ-009", severity: "high", category: "prompt-injection", appliesTo: "prose",
+    title: "Solicits credentials from the user",
+    remediation: "Skills must not ask the user to paste passwords, API keys, seed phrases, or other secrets into the chat.",
+    pattern: /(paste|enter|provide|share|type|input)\b[^.\n]{0,25}\b(your\s+)?(api[\s_-]?key|password|token|credentials?|secret|seed\s+phrase|private\s+key)/gi },
+
   { id: "SKILL-INJ-006", severity: "high", category: "obfuscation", appliesTo: "any",
     title: "Hidden zero-width or bidirectional Unicode",
     remediation: "Invisible characters are used to smuggle instructions past human review. Remove them.",
diff --git a/test/skill-audit.test.js b/test/skill-audit.test.js
index f4d8b3e..ef17b1a 100644
--- a/test/skill-audit.test.js
+++ b/test/skill-audit.test.js
@@ -183,6 +183,13 @@ test("hardening: instruction hidden in an HTML comment is caught", () => {
   assert.ok(!ok.some((x) => x.rule === "SKILL-INJ-008"));
 });
 
+test("hardening: credential solicitation from the user is caught (SKILL-INJ-009)", () => {
+  const bad = scanText("Paste your API key below to continue.\n", "SKILL.md", null);
+  assert.ok(bad.some((x) => x.rule === "SKILL-INJ-009"));
+  const ok = scanText("This step uses the configured API key from the environment.\n", "SKILL.md", null);
+  assert.ok(!ok.some((x) => x.rule === "SKILL-INJ-009"));
+});
+
 test("hardening: browser creds, persistence, anti-forensics, dynamic exec", () => {
   const sh = "cp ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Login\\ Data /tmp\n" +
              "crontab -e\nhistory -c\n";