feat(ai): defend Ask AI suggestions against prompt injection - #667
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The event payload sent to the model carries headers, user agent, query and POST parameters, all written by whoever triggered the error. Nothing in the prompt marks them as data, so an instruction planted in a header competes with the system instruction on equal terms. Wrap the payload in markers carrying a random per-request nonce and state in the system prompt that the marked block is data. A fixed marker was rejected: JSON.stringify leaves < and > alone, so a known marker can be closed early from inside a header. An answer reproducing the nonce is replaced with a fallback message.
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Pull request overview
Introduces a prompt-injection defense for Ask AI suggestions by spotlighting untrusted event payload data with per-request nonce-delimited markers, and rejecting model outputs that echo the nonce to prevent boundary/marker leakage.
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- Wrap untrusted event payload in nonce-carrying open/close markers and append a matching spotlighting rule to the system prompt.
- Add a deterministic “leak tripwire” that rejects outputs containing the nonce and returns a fallback message, while reporting only event IDs (not attacker-influenced output) to Hawk/logs.
- Add unit tests covering marker/nonce generation, marker-forgery resistance, and leak detection behavior.
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| test/services/askAi.test.ts | Updates AIService tests to assert spotlighting + adds rejection/reporting coverage. |
| test/services/askAi-spotlighting.test.ts | New tests for nonce generation, marker wrapping, and collision/forgery handling. |
| test/services/askAi-leak-detector.test.ts | New tests for case-insensitive nonce leak detection and fallback behavior. |
| src/services/askAi/security/spotlighting.ts | Adds nonce-marked prompt wrapping and system spotlighting instruction generation. |
| src/services/askAi/security/leakDetector.ts | Adds leak detection helper and fallback message constant. |
| src/services/askAi/inputs/eventSolving.ts | Documents that the raw serializer is unsafe to send directly to a model. |
| src/services/ai.ts | Integrates spotlighting + leak detection, and reports rejections via Hawk/logs. |
| src/integrations/vercel-ai/index.ts | Documents the “tool-less calls only” security invariant (removes TODO). |
| package.json | Bumps version to 1.5.11. |
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I'd suggest to use English for system prompts since Cyrillic symbols uses 2x more tokens.
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Ask AI sends the whole event payload to the model. Headers, user agent, query and POST parameters come from whoever triggered the error, not from a Hawk user, and nothing in the prompt separated them from the model's own instruction.
To keep the model from acting on them, the payload is wrapped in markers carrying a random per-request nonce, and the system prompt states that everything between them is data rather than instructions (spotlighting). The nonce is what a fixed marker would lack:
JSON.stringifyleaves<and>alone, so a known marker can be closed early from inside a header.If the model follows an injection anyway, the answer is replaced with a fallback message whenever it reproduces the nonce, which a clean answer never does.