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The Prompt-Injection Bug That Took Down My Agent for 6 Hours

DEV.to AIΒ·April 17, 2026

The author describes a 6-hour outage of their AI content agent caused by an indirect prompt injection bug originating from an unvalidated research file. This led to the agent generating 47 identical, unfinished drafts, highlighting the critical need for input validation in AI systems.

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