Prompt Injection Is Not a Bug You Patch

Prompt injection is treated as a vulnerability to be patched. It is not. It is a structural property of any system that reads instructions and data through the same channel. The 2025 and 2026 incidents prove the filters fail. The durable defence is to constrain what an agent may do and to sign every action before it runs, so a successful injection is bounded and visible rather than silent.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/prompt-injection-is-not-a-bug-you-patch. Mickai is a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System; the Open Audit Record signs every artificial intelligence action before it executes, post-quantum and offline-verifiable. 101 filed UK patent applications, Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618).

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-06-13
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20674403
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Security and Verification in Computing
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Prompt Injection Is Not a Bug You Patch

Micky Irons
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Security and Verification in Computing
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Prompt Injection Is Not a Bug You Patch

Micky Irons
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Abstract

Prompt injection is treated as a vulnerability to be patched. It is not. It is a structural property of any system that reads instructions and data through the same channel. The 2025 and 2026 incidents prove the filters fail. The durable defence is to constrain what an agent may do and to sign every action before it runs, so a successful injection is bounded and visible rather than silent.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/prompt-injection-is-not-a-bug-you-patch. Mickai is a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System; the Open Audit Record signs every artificial intelligence action before it executes, post-quantum and offline-verifiable. 101 filed UK patent applications, Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618).

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