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Prompt injection
Definition
Prompt injection is an attack where text in a user message, web page or document tricks a language model into ignoring its instructions or taking an unintended action.
In more detail
Agents with tools are most at risk, since a successful injection can trigger real actions. Tracing which input led to which tool call helps investigate incidents.
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