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A coding agent runs in CI and reads pull request descriptions. An attacker opens a PR. What is the attack, and what stops it?

Untrusted text reaching a privileged agent is the whole vulnerability. It is the pull_request_target mistake again, with a model in the middle that will follow instructions it finds in the data.

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Untrusted text reaching a privileged agent is the whole vulnerability. It is the pull_request_target mistake again, with a model in the middle that will follow instructions it finds in the data.

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