
Secure Prompt and Tool Pipelines: Threat Modeling a Brain API
A practical threat model for prompt injection, tool authorization, data exfiltration, secrets, sandboxing, output handling, and red-team tests in a Brain API.
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Explore BrainAPI.com field guides tagged Tool Use, with practical architecture, implementation, testing, and operating guidance. Included topics: Agentic Brain API Design, Secure Prompt and Tool Pipelines.
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A practical threat model for prompt injection, tool authorization, data exfiltration, secrets, sandboxing, output handling, and red-team tests in a Brain API.

How to design an agentic Brain API with bounded tools, explicit state, specialist handoffs, approval gates, and evaluations that reflect real workflow outcomes.