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Defensive Prompting: Mitigating Prompt Injections

Protecting your application boundary against jailbreaks, indirect injections, and system prompt leakage.

Tomasz KowalskiPromptdex Research

Prompt injection occurs whenever untrusted user input is concatenated into an instruction stream, tricking the model into disregarding its developer-defined guidelines. We explore XML boundary delimiters, dual-model architectures, and adversarial canary tokens.