How to Prevent Prompt Injection in RAG Pipelines
Prevent prompt injection in RAG with ingest-time scanning, query-time checks, retrieval boundaries, and defense-in-depth — without claiming complete elimination.
Blog / Prompt Injection
Guides on detecting, preventing, and testing prompt injection in LLM applications — direct and indirect attacks, RAG risks, and production defenses.
Prevent prompt injection in RAG with ingest-time scanning, query-time checks, retrieval boundaries, and defense-in-depth — without claiming complete elimination.
Indirect prompt injection through MCP tool results — why tool output is untrusted, and how to scan before it re-enters the agent context.
Prompt injection is when untrusted text manipulates an LLM into ignoring your instructions. Learn how it works, why it matters, and what developers should do about it.
Practical methods to detect prompt injection before it reaches your model — heuristics, structural analysis, classification, and API-based screening.
Architectural controls, input validation, retrieval hardening, and layered defenses to reduce prompt injection risk in production LLM applications.
Direct injection targets the user prompt. Indirect injection hides instructions in retrieved content, documents, or web pages. Compare both attack paths and defenses.
Recognizable prompt injection patterns — instruction overrides, role manipulation, system prompt extraction, and hidden instructions in retrieved text.
Prompt injection and jailbreaking overlap but are not identical. Learn how they differ, where they intersect, and how to defend against both.
RAG pipelines ingest untrusted documents and web content. Learn how indirect injection enters retrieval context and how to harden RAG applications.
Attackers try to leak system prompts, hidden instructions, and tool definitions. Understand extraction techniques and how to reduce exposure.
AI agents that browse the web can ingest malicious instructions embedded in page content. Learn how web-based indirect injection works and how to control agent actions.
Documents and PDFs can contain hidden instructions aimed at the model. Learn how document-based indirect injection works in ingestion and RAG pipelines.
Build a practical prompt injection test plan — test cases, regression fixtures, CI integration, and red-team scenarios for LLM applications.
Keyword blocklists miss paraphrased attacks, encoded payloads, and indirect injection. Learn why layered detection beats simple filters.
A production-ready checklist for prompt injection defenses — input screening, retrieval hardening, output handling, monitoring, and testing.