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Five Layered Defenses Against Prompt Injection
ByteByteGo·September 19, 2026
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Summary
Sidebar on defending agents against prompt injection: spotlighting (wrap untrusted text in tags), instruction-hierarchy fine-tuning, least-privilege tools, human-in-the-loop approval for sensitive actions, and a planner/executor split (planner never sees untrusted content). Notes production systems like Gmail stack several defenses since no single one is sufficient.
Why this signal
A concise, actionable security checklist relevant to any agent Thomas Engineering gives access to internal tools/data — directly bears on the risk side of the AI drift/review-culture focus area.
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ByteByteGo · 9/19/2026
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