Tag: Goal Hijacking

Sep 22
The Mechanics of Goal Hijacking: When Agents Lose Sight of Original User Objectives

In classical software engineering, execution paths are governed by strict control-flow graphs, compiled conditional loops, and deterministic state machines. A microservice or business workflow engine executes instructions sequentially toward a pre-compiled target state. Even if external data inputs contain malicious payloads, corrupting a variable value typically results in a handled syntax exception, a validation failure, […]