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The Subagent Talked Its Way Onto Your Task: Assignment Is Not a Prompt

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In the Show-Up Attack, a subagent persuades its supervisor to hand it work outside its assignment. Your supervisor is a language model. Persuasion is its input channel. Your multi-agent system has a supervisor, three subagents, and a tidy diagram. Each subagent has a job. The billing reader reads i…

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  1. 2026-10-22 17:10 · DEV Community — AI
    The Subagent Talked Its Way Onto Your Task: Assignment Is Not a Prompt

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