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Prompt Injection Defenses

How to reduce prompt injection and tool misuse risks in agent deployments.

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Prompt Injection Defenses

  • Least privilege: only expose tools the agent truly needs.
  • Human-in-the-loop: require approval for write/delete/shell actions.
  • Input sanitization: strip or encode untrusted content before passing to the LLM.
  • Output validation: parse tool calls with schemas and reject unexpected parameters.
  • Monitoring: log all tool invocations and flag anomalous patterns.

Sandboxed runtimes (Docker, Firecracker) add a strong second layer of defense.