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This single invariant changed my entire agentic orchestration architecture. I hope its a jumping off point for more of you and spurs some new ideas :)


This is interesting. Are you taking in public data sets in order to have your data accuracy or is the data set your using the proprietary advantaged here?


Interesting demo, how are you thinking about prompt injection and security with web agents? Ive been facing this as well.


Prompt injection is the same problem all agents face, ChatGpt Atlas, claude cowork, openclaw, all of them. It's a known unsolved problem across the industry.

I mitigate it by giving the agent a fixed action set (no scripts, no direct API calls), and breaking tasks into focused subtasks so no single agent has broad scope. The LLM prioritises its own instructions over page content, but if someone managed to hijack it, the agent can interact with authenticated sessions. Everything's visible in real time though, and all actions are logged, so you can see exactly what it's doing and kill it.

Practically speaking, I use it similar to how people use Zapier or n8n, you set up specific workflows and make sure you're only pointing it at sites you trust. If you're sending it to random unknown websites then yeah, there's more risk.

But even then, an attacker would need to know what apps you're authenticated with and what data the agent has access to. The chances of something actually happening are pretty low, but the risk is there. No one's fully solved this yet.


Agree with your notion of context bloat, have you though about the concept of context bundles and GraphDBs? This helped me a ton with limiting context and snapshots based on tooling.


Can you explain further how that helps / works?


WHy are we just posting paid context? and the worst viral product since bop-it?


Well, that is the primary source. Would linking https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-agent-soci... be any better, if it really only contains same information as title and some extra speculation?


Let's leave Bop-It out of this.


If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989


why are we hating on bop-it? bop-it was great fun!


Interesting. love the concept and super relevant.


thanks, let me know if you try a scenario


Interesting


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