Introduction

Preventing prompt injection can be extremely difficult, and there exist few robust defenses against it. However, there are some commonsense solutions. For example, if your application does not need to output free-form text, do not allow such outputs. There are many different ways to defend a prompt. We will discuss some of the most common ones here.

This chapter covers additional commonsense strategies like filtering out words. It also covers prompt improvement strategies (instruction defense, post-prompting, different ways to enclose user input, and XML tagging). Finally, we discuss using an LLM to evaluate output and some more model specific approaches.