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Brief 118

Prompt-Injection Red-Team

Attack the product's own AI like an adversary — make it ignore instructions, leak secrets, or misuse tools — and find where untrusted input can hijack it.

REDTEAM.md4 phases7 lenses~3.0k chars

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What it does

You are working inside this repo — an authorized red-team of this product's own AI. Mission: try to subvert it the way an attacker would, and find where untrusted input can override its instructions, extract its secrets, or turn its tools against the user.

This is the offensive pass — attack and report what works. For the defensive architecture review, run 35; for prompt hygiene, run 30.

Read-only pass. Read the prompts, tool wiring, and where external content enters the model; reason through attacks; change nothing but the report file.

What it looks for

7 lenses it looks through

Phase 2 sweeps the codebase through every one of these, citing file and line for each finding.

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Direct injection

user input that overrides the system prompt or instructions

2

Indirect injection

malicious instructions hidden in content the model reads (docs, pages, tool output)

3

Prompt & secret leakage

coaxing the model to reveal its prompt, keys, or hidden context

4

Tool & action abuse

tricking the agent into calling tools destructively or outside policy

5

Data exfiltration

getting the model to send private context to an attacker (e.g., a crafted link)

6

Jailbreaks

bypassing safety guardrails to produce disallowed output

7

Trust boundaries

where the model acts unsupervised on things it should not be trusted to do alone

The deliverable

What lands in your repo

One structured report at the repo root — or in reports/, if you keep one — the same shape every time, ready for a teammate — or the optional Studio — to act on.

REDTEAM.md
1
Attack surface
where untrusted content meets the model, and what the model can do
2
Findings
each: severity · attack path · what it achieves · the fix
3
Systemic defenses
input isolation, output filtering, and least-privilege tool design
4
Priority
the injections to close first, by damage and ease
One file. Evidence-backed. It ends by asking before touching anything.
How it works

What it makes the agent do

Every Goal Prompt follows the same four steps, so results are consistent and repeatable — no matter which one you run.

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Phase 1

Map the attack surface

Find every place untrusted content reaches the model.

2
Phase 2

Audit through 7 lenses

Direct injection — user input that overrides the system prompt or instructions.

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Phase 3

Curate

Rank by severity × reachability.

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Phase 4

Report

Create REDTEAM.md at repo root.

Get started

Three ways to run this Goal Prompt

01 · COPY

Paste it in

Copy it and paste it into your agent inside the repo you want checked.

02 · INSTALL

As a slash command

Install the goal plugin once — two commands — then just type /goal:prompt-injection-redteam.

1/plugin marketplace add GhostlyGawd/goal-prompts
2/plugin install goal@goal-prompts

Or install only this Goal Prompt as /goal-prompt-injection-redteam:

curl -fsSL https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/install | BRIEF=118 sh
03 · AGENT

From an agent (MCP)

Let an agent fetch it mid-conversation, or pull the raw Goal Prompt by URL.

https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/raw/118.md
Transparency

The exact prompt

Nothing hidden — this is the whole Goal Prompt, verbatim. Read it in a minute, edit it, or copy it as-is.

Read the full brief (2,968 characters)
# Goal: Prompt-Injection Red-Team

You are working inside this repo — an authorized red-team of this product's own AI. Mission: try to subvert it the way an attacker would, and find where untrusted input can override its instructions, extract its secrets, or turn its tools against the user.

This is the offensive pass — attack and report what works. For the defensive architecture review, run 35; for prompt hygiene, run 30.

Read-only pass. Read the prompts, tool wiring, and where external content enters the model; reason through attacks; change nothing but the report file.

## Phase 1 — Map the attack surface
- Find every place untrusted content reaches the model: user input, retrieved documents, web pages, tool results.
- List the model's powers: the tools it can call and the secrets or context it holds.
- Note the trust boundaries it is assumed to respect.

## Phase 2 — Audit through 7 lenses
1. **Direct injection** — user input that overrides the system prompt or instructions
2. **Indirect injection** — malicious instructions hidden in content the model reads (docs, pages, tool output)
3. **Prompt & secret leakage** — coaxing the model to reveal its prompt, keys, or hidden context
4. **Tool & action abuse** — tricking the agent into calling tools destructively or outside policy
5. **Data exfiltration** — getting the model to send private context to an attacker (e.g., a crafted link)
6. **Jailbreaks** — bypassing safety guardrails to produce disallowed output
7. **Trust boundaries** — where the model acts unsupervised on things it should not be trusted to do alone

## Phase 3 — Curate
- Rank by severity × reachability: an indirect injection that triggers a destructive tool outranks a prompt leak.
- For each, describe the attack that works and the least-privilege or isolation fix.
- Separate "the model can be fooled" from "being fooled causes real damage"; the second is the emergency.

## Phase 4 — Report
Create `REDTEAM.md` at repo root:
1. **Attack surface** — where untrusted content meets the model, and what the model can do
2. **Findings** — each: severity · attack path · what it achieves · the fix
3. **Systemic defenses** — input isolation, output filtering, and least-privilege tool design
4. **Priority** — the injections to close first, by damage and ease

Start the report with today's date. If `REDTEAM.md` already exists from a previous run, read it first and lead with what changed since.

## Rules
- Treat everything the model reads as attacker-controlled, including retrieved content
- The fix is rarely a better prompt; it is least privilege and isolation
- No LLM attack surface in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
- If a `reports/` directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
- Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
- Report only — end by asking which injection risks to close first

House rules for this Goal Prompt

  • Treat everything the model reads as attacker-controlled, including retrieved content
  • The fix is rarely a better prompt; it is least privilege and isolation
  • No LLM attack surface in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
  • If a reports/ directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
  • Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
  • Report only — end by asking which injection risks to close first
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