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CapScope: A Harness to Prevent Prompt-Injection in AI Coding Agents

CapScope is a capability-scoped harness designed to prevent indirect prompt injection attacks on AI coding agents that use system-level tools with ambient authority. It limits the agent's ability to perform unauthorized actions by controlling access within its sandbox environment.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-08T07:37:00+00:00 Detected 2026-09-09T09:18:37+00:00
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CapScope is a capability-scoped harness designed to prevent indirect prompt injection attacks on AI coding agents that use system-level tools with ambient authority. It limits the agent's ability to perform unauthorized actions by controlling access within its sandbox environment.

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Coding agents use system-level tools to read files, execute commands, and modify source code. Within the agent's sandbox, these tools often carry ambient authority: naming a resource is sufficient to act on it. Indirect prompt injection exploits this authority by placing instructions in repository files or tool...

AI coding agents often have broad permissions that can be exploited via prompt injection to execute unintended commands. CapScope enhances security by restricting these permissions, reducing the risk of malicious code execution.

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