Capbroker: I gave an AI agent a fake GitHub key, then watched it get tricked into trying to delete a repo anyway
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Most AI-agent setups today hand the agent the real API key directly — in an environment variable, a config file, sometimes typed straight into the conversation. If that agent is tricked — via prompt injection, a poisoned tool description, a malicious document it reads — into misusing that key, noth…
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- 2026-09-17 12:50 · DEV Community — AI
Capbroker: I gave an AI agent a fake GitHub key, then watched it get tricked into trying to delete a repo anyway