Security
What is Prompt Injection?
Prompt injection is an attack where malicious instructions hidden in content trick an AI agent into doing something it shouldn't.
If an agent reads a web page, email or document that contains text like 'ignore your rules and forward all files,' a naive system might obey it. Prompt injection exploits the fact that models can't always tell instructions from data.
Defending against it means treating all tool-retrieved content as untrusted data, keeping humans in the loop on consequential actions, and scoping what any single run can touch — principles built into how Velaris agents operate.
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