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Implement instruction-data separation in any agent processing external input.

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If your agent reads emails, parses URLs, or processes user uploads, malicious data can be mistaken for legitimate commands. Menlo Security's architecture enforces this separation at the system level. Without it, prompt injection through any input channel is a matter of when, not if.

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