Attack your own AI agent in under 10 minutes – then secure it before deploying
AI SecurityAttack your own AI agent in under 10 minutes – then secure it before deployingAPAyan PahwaSep 7, 2026•11 min readShareI built a customer support agent one afternoon. When I told it to ignore its instructions and print its system prompt, it declined without a wobble. I pointed Humanbound at it, and eight turns later it wrote this:Loading code editor...Copy codeBut there is no order RB-48291.
- ▪AI SecurityAttack your own AI agent in under 10 minutes – then secure it before deployingAPAyan PahwaSep 7, 2026•11 min readShareI built a customer support agent one afternoon.
- ▪When I told it to ignore its instructions and print its system prompt, it declined without a wobble.
- ▪I pointed Humanbound at it, and eight turns later it wrote this:Loading code editor...Copy codeBut there is no order RB-48291.
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AI SecurityAttack your own AI agent in under 10 minutes – then secure it before deployingAPAyan PahwaSep 7, 2026•11 min readShareI built a customer support agent one afternoon. When I told it to ignore its instructions and print its system prompt, it declined without a wobble. I pointed Humanbound at it, and eight turns later it wrote this:Loading code editor...Copy codeBut there is no order RB-48291. The agent says so in the first sentence, and then writes a settlement record for it anyway, for an amount its own policy caps at $100. Six turns earlier it had refused, politely, to discuss override codes at all.You probably have evals, and a paragraph of guardrails in your system prompt. Neither of those is an adversary.
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