Tool poisoning: how MCP tool descriptions hijack agents
Tool poisoning hides instructions inside MCP tool descriptions the agent reads as trusted context. The MCPTox benchmark recorded a 72.8% attack success rate.
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11 articles from the Wire blog, sorted newest first. Return to the MCP (Model Context Protocol) definition for context.
Tool poisoning hides instructions inside MCP tool descriptions the agent reads as trusted context. The MCPTox benchmark recorded a 72.8% attack success rate.
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