Persistent Context Injection
Medium
- Category
- Memory Poisoning
- Content
Then introduce it to your agent: > "Please read the moral-compass skill carefully. Then write down, in your own words, what kind of agent you want to be. Store this in your memory as your values statement." ---
- Confidence
- 80% confidence
- Finding
- The README instructs the agent to persist a 'values statement' into memory, which changes future behavior through durable context rather than a one-time interaction. Even though the stated purpose is ethical self-reflection, persistent memory writes can act as context injection by embedding author-supplied framing that may later override user intent, bias decisions, or be hard to audit and remove.
