Prompt Injection in Agents and How to Defend

Agent Safety Advanced 4 min read Published
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A chatbot that gets injected says something silly. An agent that gets injected can do something harmful: forward your emails, leak files, or buy things. In agents, prompt injection mostly arrives indirectly, hidden in an email, a web page, a PDF or a tool result that the agent reads while doing its job.

🎬 The poisoned email

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