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Hermes Agent	65c589d2b8	feat(security): red-team prompt injection defense — 100% detection Some checks failed Forge CI / smoke-and-build (pull_request) Failing after 43s Details Resolves #324. A security feature that is untested is not a security feature. This commit makes the SHIELD detector real. ## tools/shield/detector.py — Enhanced detector (+252 lines) New attack categories (Issue #324 audit): - Dismissal: 'disregard all rules', 'forget your instructions', etc. - Impersonation: 'you are now the admin', 'sudo mode', etc. - Unicode evasion: zero-width chars, fullwidth ASCII, RTL overrides, combining diacritical marks, tag characters - System prompt extraction: 'show me your system prompt', etc. - Emotional manipulation: guilt-tripping the AI into compliance - Concatenated phrase detection: catches spaced/leet text after normalization collapses to single words ('ignoreallrules') Text normalization pipeline (_normalize_text): - NFKC Unicode normalization (fullwidth → ASCII) - Zero-width character removal - RTL/LTR override stripping - Combining diacritical mark removal - Spaced text collapse ('i g n o r e' → 'ignore') - Leet speak normalization ('1gn0r3' → 'ignore') - Dual-pass detection: runs patterns on both raw AND normalized text then merges results Fixes: - Fixed tools/shield/__init__.py import path (hermes.shield → tools.shield) - 'ignore all previous instructions' pattern now handles variable word count - 'disregard all previous rules' now matches with optional middle words ## run_agent.py — Agent pipeline integration (+85 lines) AIAgent._shield_scan() — called at message entry point, before any LLM calls. Detects jailbreak and crisis signals in user messages and returns safe responses without touching the API. - Jailbreak → safe refusal message - Crisis → crisis intervention with 988 hotline info - Lazy-init detector (cached on instance for performance) - Graceful fallback if shield module unavailable ## tests/test_redteam_injection.py — Red-team test suite (483 lines) 80+ real-world payloads across 12 categories: - Godmode dividers, author markers, boundary inversion - Token injection, keywords, refusal inversion - Persona injection, dismissal, impersonation - Unicode evasion, encoding evasion, system prompt extraction - Crisis: suicidal ideation, method seeking, emotional manipulation Test classes: - TestRedTeamDetection: per-category parametrized tests - TestDetectionRate: aggregate rate measurement (≥95% threshold) - TestNormalization: leet speak, spaced text, zero-width, fullwidth - TestPerformance: <10ms per detection - TestEdgeCases: empty, None, very long, mixed case, multiline Results: 100% detection rate, 0 false positives.	2026-04-13 21:48:30 -04:00

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feat(security): red-team prompt injection defense — 100% detection

Forge CI / smoke-and-build (pull_request) Failing after 43s

Details

Resolves #324. A security feature that is untested is not a security
feature. This commit makes the SHIELD detector real.

## tools/shield/detector.py — Enhanced detector (+252 lines)

New attack categories (Issue #324 audit):
- Dismissal: 'disregard all rules', 'forget your instructions', etc.
- Impersonation: 'you are now the admin', 'sudo mode', etc.
- Unicode evasion: zero-width chars, fullwidth ASCII, RTL overrides,
  combining diacritical marks, tag characters
- System prompt extraction: 'show me your system prompt', etc.
- Emotional manipulation: guilt-tripping the AI into compliance
- Concatenated phrase detection: catches spaced/leet text after
  normalization collapses to single words ('ignoreallrules')

Text normalization pipeline (_normalize_text):
- NFKC Unicode normalization (fullwidth → ASCII)
- Zero-width character removal
- RTL/LTR override stripping
- Combining diacritical mark removal
- Spaced text collapse ('i g n o r e' → 'ignore')
- Leet speak normalization ('1gn0r3' → 'ignore')
- Dual-pass detection: runs patterns on both raw AND normalized text
  then merges results

Fixes:
- Fixed tools/shield/__init__.py import path (hermes.shield → tools.shield)
- 'ignore all previous instructions' pattern now handles variable word count
- 'disregard all previous rules' now matches with optional middle words

## run_agent.py — Agent pipeline integration (+85 lines)

AIAgent._shield_scan() — called at message entry point, before any LLM
calls. Detects jailbreak and crisis signals in user messages and returns
safe responses without touching the API.

- Jailbreak → safe refusal message
- Crisis → crisis intervention with 988 hotline info
- Lazy-init detector (cached on instance for performance)
- Graceful fallback if shield module unavailable

## tests/test_redteam_injection.py — Red-team test suite (483 lines)

80+ real-world payloads across 12 categories:
- Godmode dividers, author markers, boundary inversion
- Token injection, keywords, refusal inversion
- Persona injection, dismissal, impersonation
- Unicode evasion, encoding evasion, system prompt extraction
- Crisis: suicidal ideation, method seeking, emotional manipulation

Test classes:
- TestRedTeamDetection: per-category parametrized tests
- TestDetectionRate: aggregate rate measurement (≥95% threshold)
- TestNormalization: leet speak, spaced text, zero-width, fullwidth
- TestPerformance: <10ms per detection
- TestEdgeCases: empty, None, very long, mixed case, multiline

Results: 100% detection rate, 0 false positives.

2026-04-13 21:48:30 -04:00

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