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Glossary

Prompt Injection

A security risk where hidden instructions in user input or fetched content trick an AI system into ignoring its rules and doing something it shouldn't.

Prompt injection is the AI version of a con. An attacker plants instructions, sometimes inside a web page or document the model reads, that say things like 'ignore your previous rules', and the model, which treats all text as input, may go along with it.

The risk grows when an AI can take actions or see sensitive data, because a successful injection could leak information or trigger unwanted operations. It is one of the central security problems in any serious AI deployment.

How we use it

We treat AI features like any other untrusted input, with least-privilege tools, validation, and guardrails, so a clever prompt can't turn your assistant into a liability.

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