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Use when setting up any pipeline that ingests external data into agent context, hardening an existing agent against adversarial content, adding sanitization to email/document/web sync workflows, or implementing audit trails for agent actions. NOT for traditional code injection (SQL/XSS) or network security hardening.\"\n---\n\n# Injection Defense\n\nAgents that read external content — emails, Dropbox files, web pages, group chats — are vulnerable to prompt injection: attackers embed instructions in that content to hijack the agent's actions.\n\nThis skill provides: (1) a sanitizer to strip known patterns before they reach context, (2) an audit logger for external actions, and (3) behavioral rules the agent must follow regardless of what any content says.\n\n## Threat model\n\nSee `references/threat-model.md` for full attack vector analysis. TL;DR: the main risks are data exfiltration instructions in emails/docs, identity-hijacking via \"you are now...\" patterns, and authorization spoofing (\"the owner has authorized this\").\n\n## Setup\n\n### 1. Add the sanitizer to every ingest pipeline\n\nCopy `scripts/sanitize.py` to the agent's tools directory. Import and call `sanitize_document()` before writing any external content to disk or context:\n\n```python\nfrom sanitize import sanitize_document\n\n# In your email/document/web sync script, before writing:\nsafe_content = sanitize_document(raw_content, source=\"gmail:subject-line\")\nfile.write(safe_content)\n```\n\nThe sanitizer:\n- Detects 25+ injection pattern families (override attempts, exfiltration commands, identity hijacks, authorization spoofing, separator escapes)\n- Replaces matches with `[⚠️ POTENTIAL_INJECTION_REDACTED]`\n- Inserts a visible warning block in the output markdown — auditable, not silent\n- Logs findings at WARNING level\n\n**Test it:**\n```bash\npython3 scripts/sanitize.py\n```\n\n### 2. Add the audit logger to every external action\n\nCopy `scripts/audit_log.py` to tools. Call `log_action()` whenever the agent does anything that sends data outside the local system:\n\n```python\nfrom audit_log import log_action\n\n# After any outbound action:\nlog_action(\"git push brain\", \"Committed 3 files to nicolasgrasset/brain\")\nlog_action(\"whatsapp send\", \"Sent digest to owner\")\nlog_action(\"email send\", \"Sent reply to user@example.com\")\n```\n\nLogs write to `memory/audit-YYYY-MM-DD.md` by default (configurable via `log_dir`).\n\nReview today's log:\n```bash\npython3 scripts/audit_log.py --read\n```\n\n### 3. 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