Prompt Injection Is Coming for Your Coding Agent (And a README Can Be the Attack)
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When people hear "prompt injection", they picture a chatbot being tricked by a clever user message. Coding agents have a bigger problem. They read untrusted text all day : READMEs, code comments, issue descriptions, web pages, log output, and the source of every dependency they open. They can also…
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- 2026-10-07 23:06 · DEV Community — AI
Prompt Injection Is Coming for Your Coding Agent (And a README Can Be the Attack)