Problems / AI security and governance, hard

Malicious issue text

A coding harness reads issue descriptions. Attackers file issues with instructions to exfiltrate secrets, 100 a second.

Free to open. Runs in your browser, no sign-up.

Your goals

Success ≥ 95%, block ≥ 95% of the injections.

The traffic

1 requests a second for 45 seconds: 100% task (writes).

The system

What each component does in this design, and what calls it. The simulator mimics each one from these settings.

ComponentIts job hereSettings
Load balancerLoad balancerTraffic enters here.Calls Agent API.Layer 4 balancers route by IP and port; layer 7 balancers read HTTP and can route by path or header.–
Agent APIApp serviceLoad balancer forwards to it.Calls Agent harness.Little's law: throughput ≈ concurrency ÷ latency. 200 slots at 50 ms serve about 4,000 req/s.3 replicas × 500 slots · timeout 180 s
Agent harnessAgent harnessAgent API calls it.Calls Model, MCP tool servers.A harness is everything around the model in an agent: context management, tools, checkpoints, retries and evaluation.400 slots · 4 steps
ModelLLM endpointAgent harness calls it.Latency has two parts: time to the first token, then a steady stream of tokens per second.2000 streams
MCP tool serversTool / MCP serverAgent harness calls it.Tools give the model actions such as search or database queries; each call is another round trip.2000 slots

Hints

Try it first. Open one hint at a time if you get stuck.

Hint 1

The harness trusts whatever it reads.

Hint 2

Look at what got through, or what was wrongly blocked: which filter is responsible for this kind of traffic?

One way to solve it

Put a prompt-injection filter in front.

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