Whitespace Padding
Medium
- Category
- Prompt Injection
- Content
definition has a source and stays within 50 words; there are no isolated concepts; and every concept has two to six relations. | Layer | Meaning | Question | Valid form | | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Concept | Class: executable action | Which method should I use? | IPO preserves independent logic; decomposition records stages, sub-concepts, and why each is needed | | Entity | Instance: identifiable person, tool, product, or named framework | What did I use? | “I used X,” where X is not an action |
- Confidence
- 70% confidence
- Finding
- Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
