Term tag: Prompt Injection

Guardrails

A guardrail is a deterministic check around a model that can block, rewrite, or force a retry — external code you can test, unlike prompting a model to behave.

Jailbreak (Red-Teaming)

A jailbreak is an input that steers an AI past its safety training to produce content it was built to refuse. How they work, and how they are defended.

Prompt Engineering

Writing the input to a fixed, already-trained language model so it reliably produces the output you want — steering the model, not retraining it.

Prompt Injection

Prompt injection is when text an AI was meant to read gets obeyed as an instruction. Direct vs indirect, why it is unfixable, and what actually contains it.