AI article
Indirect prompt injection is not a user input problem
Community description: Most teams test whether users can trick their AI agent. The real attack is in the data the agent reads, not the prompts users type.
Dev.to | Oct 14, 2026 | Phillip Austin Green
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Defenses focus on the input boundary: input validation, output filtering, system prompt hardening. Indirect prompt injection breaks this model because the malicious content is not user input. The attack surface for indirect prompt injection includes: Tool descriptions and metadata.
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