# prompt-injection

This skill audits apps with AI features for prompt injection, permission bypass and system prompt leaks. Useful once an LLM or agent lands in your codebase.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 372 installs · ★ 435
- Author: briiirussell
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/prompt-injection/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-05-27
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/prompt-injection

## What it does

The skill walks an audit in steps. First it maps the AI attack surface: calls to `openai`, `anthropic`, `langchain`, plus less obvious AI features such as auto-fill, moderation and MCP servers. For each integration it traces what reaches the prompt, what external data comes in, and what the model can do through tools.

Then it checks prompt construction and output handling. Expect it to flag user input interpolated without delimiters, secrets sitting inside a system prompt, and model output passed to `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`, `eval` or raw SQL. A separate section covers tool calling and autonomous agents: allowlists, argument validation, confirmation for destructive actions, iteration limits and memory poisoning.

The skill cross-references `threat-modeling`, `owasp-audit`, `api-audit` and `ai-risk-management`, so it is worth checking whether you have those installed — findings here often need a follow-up in one of them. Its declared tools are `Read`, `Grep`, `Glob`, `Bash`, `Write` and `WebSearch`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill prompt-injection -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/prompt-injection/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/prompt-injection/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill prompt-injection -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/prompt-injection/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill prompt-injection -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/prompt-injection/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills prompt-injection
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/prompt-injection/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill prompt-injection -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --path skills/prompt-injection
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/prompt-injection/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill prompt-injection -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/prompt-injection/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find every place user input reaches a prompt
- separate direct injection from indirect injection via RAG and tool output
- check whether secrets leak out of the system prompt
- review which tools an agent can call without argument validation
- catch XSS when model output is rendered as HTML

## Example prompts
- audit this app for prompt injection, start by mapping the AI attack surface
- check whether user input in this prompt can override the system instructions
- review our agent's tool calls: is there an allowlist and confirmation for destructive actions

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: prompt-injection
description: "Audit applications for AI prompt injection, agent security, and LLM permission boundary vulnerabilities. Use when the user mentions 'prompt injection,' 'LLM security,' 'AI security,' 'jailbreak,' 'indirect prompt injection,' 'prompt leaking,' 'AI red team,' 'LLM vulnerabilities,' 'AI input validation,' 'system prompt extraction,' 'agent security,' 'MCP security,' 'AI permissions,' 'AI privilege escalation,' or needs to secure any application with AI features, AI agents, or LLM integrations."
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write, WebSearch
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# Prompt Injection — AI/LLM Security Audit

Audit applications that use AI features, LLM integrations, or AI agents for prompt injection, privilege escalation, and authorization bypass vulnerabilities.

Cross-references: `threat-modeling` for design-time AI risk modeling on new AI features (before this skill applies); `owasp-audit` for the XSS / output-rendering patterns that overlap when LLM output reaches the browser (sanitize on render, JSON-LD breakout); `api-audit` for the API surface that LLM tools and MCP servers expose; `ai-risk-management` for the broader governance frame this skill sits within — prompt injection is the security slice of AI risk; AI RMF covers the rest (fairness, robustness, transparency, drift, lifecycle).

## Background

Prompt injection is the #1 vulnerability in LLM-integrated applications (OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, LLM01). It occurs when untrusted input influences the instructions an LLM follows, causing it to ignore its system prompt, leak secrets, or take unauthorized actions.

**Three attack classes:**
- **Direct injection:** Attacker provides malicious input directly to the LLM (e.g., chat input, form field processed by AI)
- **Indirect injection:** Attacker plants malicious instructions in data the LLM will later consume (e.g., web pages, emails, documents, database records, tool outputs, RAG chunks)
- **Cross-privilege injection:** Lower-privileged user plants injection in shared data that a higher-privileged user's AI session consumes, escalating privileges through the AI layer

## Methodology

### Step 1: Map the AI Attack Surface

Identify every place the application uses AI. This includes direct LLM API calls AND higher-level AI features:

```
Grep for LLM API calls:
- openai, anthropic, cohere, replicate, ollama
- ChatCompletion, messages.create, generate, complete
- langchain, llamaindex, autogen, crewai
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