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2026-08-02 11:21
Stop Leaking Secrets into your LLM Context Windows
I've seen it happen more than once in production logs: an AI agent, given access to a database or a third-party API via MCP, returns a payload that includes not just the requested data, but also a session token, an AWS secret, or an obscure API key. It feels like a minor oversight until you realize that this high-entropy string is now sitting in your LLM provider's logs, potentially part of a trai...