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Rung 06 / How an agent gets owned

Agent Security

How an agent gets owned, and what bounds the damage.

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A machined steel padlock with a copper shackle, on paper.

In scope: the exploitation surface, prompt injection and goal reframing, permission escalation, memory and context poisoning, tool and supply-chain provenance, deployed-agent safety evidence, red-teaming method. Out: model-level alignment research as a subject in itself (models), harness architecture (harnesses).

Two cells either side of a copper partition — one breached and disordered, one intact.
InjectionGoal reframingPoisoningEscalation