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AgentSentry: Defending Against Indirect Prompt Injection in Tool-Using Agents

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Introduces temporal causal diagnostics to distinguish legitimate task execution from injected manipulation in multi-turn agent interactions, plus context purification to neutralize poisoned content. Directly applicable to anyone building agents that call external tools. arXiv 2602.22724

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