Prompt Injection in Coding Agents: Where It Gets In and What Actually Limits the Damage
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A coding agent reads far more untrusted text than a chatbot does: every file in the repo, every issue it triages, every dependency README, every web page it fetches, every MCP tool result. Any of that text can contain instructions. Prompt injection in coding agents is not an exotic attack; it is th…
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- 2026-10-11 14:23 · DEV Community — AI
Prompt Injection in Coding Agents: Where It Gets In and What Actually Limits the Damage