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Prompt injection is a data plane problem
Community description: One GitHub issue was enough to make a coding agent leak a private repo through the official MCP server. In January the Git MCP server fell to path traversal from a prompt alone. I don't think either was a model failure. Both were the mistake we made with SQL in 2004, sending data and instructions down the same wire.
Dev.to | Oct 6, 2026 | Ahmet Zeybek
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That doesn't make the model side useless. Split every agent session into a read phase and a write phase. In the read phase the agent can call any read tool and no write tool.
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