ROPE: Routed Origin Policy Enforcement against Indirect Prompt Injection
ROPE enforces origin-based policies to block indirect prompt injection in tool-using LLM agents at the system level — a practical architectural defence for enterprises scaling agentic AI beyond prototyping.
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arXiv:2608.27496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indirect prompt injection (IPI) plants instructions in the content a tool-using LLM agent reads, steering the agent into harmful tool calls. The strongest defenses are system-level, leveraging techniques such as task-conditional tool screening to prevent execution of malicious tools, and information-flow control to avoid tool execution with untrusted parameters. However, as agents grow more capable, users delegate more to automation. Consequently,
Editorial Analysis
As enterprises move LLM agents from proof-of-concept to production, indirect prompt injection via untrusted tool outputs becomes a critical attack vector that needs architectural — not just prompt-level — controls.
Mandate origin-policy enforcement for all tool-using LLM agent deployments, and evaluate ROPE's approach as a reference architecture.
System-level defences against prompt injection in AI agents are essential before scaling agentic AI in enterprise environments.
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