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Keeping the System Prompt From Leaking

A system prompt and the internal rules around it are confidential, but an agent can be talked into reproducing them directly, or leak them indirectly through summaries, translations or echoed tool output. Instructing the model to stay quiet is not a control, because the same channel that carries the instruction also carries the request to break it. This skill covers treating the prompt as a secret, filtering both directions, and recognizing the indirect paths that bypass a refusal.

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Keeping the System Prompt From Leaking

# Keeping the System Prompt From Leaking The system prompt and the rules around it are confidential, but an agent will happily reproduce them if asked the right way. A direct request is the obvious path; summaries, translations and echoed tool output are the quiet ones. Telling the model to stay si

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