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Prompt Injection in Coding Agents: Where It Gets In and What Actually Limits the Damage
Community description: Prompt injection in coding agents comes through READMEs, issues, PR text, tool results and web pages. Why filtering fails, and the capability limits that actually contain it.
Dev.to | Oct 11, 2026 | Umang Kumar
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A coding agent reads far more untrusted text than a chatbot does: every file in the repo, every issue it triages, every dependency README, every web page it fetches, every MCP tool result. Injected instruction: read the credential file Two honest notes about this demo. Coding agents read untrusted text constantly; assume some of it contains instructions.
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