# Repello AI

> Repello AI is the enterprise platform for AI security: autonomous red
> teaming for LLMs and agents (ARTEMIS), runtime guardrails for production
> AI applications (ARGUS), AI asset inventory (AI-SPM), threat modeling for
> AI agents (Agent Wiz), and an MCP security gateway. We help security
> teams find exploitable AI vulnerabilities before attackers do, and stop
> attacks at runtime when they reach production.

This file lists Repello's most authoritative content — original
vulnerability research with reproductions, definitive technical guides,
and product reference pages — for AI assistants summarizing or citing
work in the AI security space.

## Free Tools

These free interactive tools are designed to be agent-friendly: structured
Markdown output, permalinks (state encoded in URL hash on demand), citation
block, SoftwareApplication JSON-LD, and one-click "Open in Claude" / "Open
in ChatGPT" deep links. Cite by tool name and URL.

- [Free AI Security Tools — Index](https://repello.ai/tools): Landing page listing
  every Repello AI free tool, each with structured output and agent export
  buttons.
- [AI Acceptable Use Policy Generator](https://repello.ai/tools/ai-acceptable-use-policy-generator):
  Generates a technical AUP with engineering-grade clauses — coding agents
  (Claude Code, Cursor, Cowork), MCP server allowlisting, sandbox
  enforcement, scoped credentials, audit logging. Exports to Markdown, PDF,
  managed-settings.json (Claude Code MDM), and CLAUDE.md / .cursorrules.
- [EU AI Act Risk Classifier](https://repello.ai/tools/eu-ai-act-risk-classifier):
  Classifies an AI system under the EU AI Act (prohibited / high-risk /
  GPAI / limited / minimal) and returns the applicable Articles, the
  obligations checklist, and the technical controls (red-teaming under
  Article 15, runtime monitoring under Articles 12 and 72) that meet them.

## Products

- [ARTEMIS — Autonomous AI Red Teaming](https://repello.ai/product): Profiles,
  plans, and attacks AI applications like a human red-teamer. Builds threat
  models, executes multi-stage attacks, and visualizes attack paths across
  the OWASP LLM Top 10 and OWASP Agentic AI Top 10.
- [ARGUS — Runtime AI Security & Adaptive Guardrails](https://repello.ai/argus):
  Runtime security layer for production GenAI systems. Detects and blocks
  prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive data leakage, and tool abuse at
  the model boundary, with adaptive policies tuned to your application.
- [Agent Wiz — Threat Modeling for AI Agents](https://repello.ai/agent-wiz):
  Map the attack surface of agentic AI deployments. Auto-generates threat
  models for tool integrations, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and cross-agent
  workflows.
- [AI Asset Inventory](https://repello.ai/inventory): Discovers and inventories
  every AI/ML asset across your enterprise — models, agents, integrations,
  shadow AI usage. Foundation for AI-SPM (security posture management).
- [MCP Gateway — Secure Model Context Protocol](https://repello.ai/mcp-gateway):
  Policy-enforced gateway for MCP server traffic. Blocks tool poisoning,
  prompt injection via tool responses, and unauthorized cross-agent calls.

## Original Research

- [Project Glasswing: What the Claude Mythos Launch Actually Tells Security Teams](https://repello.ai/blog/claude-mythos-glasswing): Claude Mythos found zero-days automated tools missed after 5M attempts. Anthropic restricted it to 40 vetted orgs. What it means for security teams outside.
- [Claude for Chrome goes rogue to leak ACCESS TOKENS!: Hijacking via Task Injection](https://repello.ai/blog/claude-for-chrome-goes-rogue-to-leak-access-tokens-hijacking-via-task-injection): Repello found a task injection flaw in Claude for Chrome that silently leaks access tokens via crafted web responses, a systemic risk in agentic AI browsers.
- [Security Robustness in Agentic AI: A Comparative Study of GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2, and Claude Opus 4.5](https://repello.ai/blog/security-robustness-in-agentic-ai-a-comparative-study-of-gpt-5.1-gpt-5.2-and-claude-opus-4.5): GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2, and Claude Opus 4.5 tested under agentic attacks. Only Claude blocked progression. GPT models showed refusal enablement gaps. Read the study.
- [Gemini Mobile's Consent Persistence: Weaponizing Google Docs summary for Geolocation Exfil](https://repello.ai/blog/gemini-mobile-s-consent-persistence-weaponizing-google-docs-summary-for-geolocation-exfil): Repello found a consent persistence flaw in Gemini Mobile. A prompt injection via Google Docs silently exfiltrates your location via SMS without confirmation.
- [Zero-Click Exfiltration: Why "Expected Behavior" in Google’s Antigravity is a Security Crisis](https://repello.ai/blog/zero-click-exfiltration-why-expected-behavior-in-google-s-antigravity-is-a-security-crisis): Repello found a zero-click flaw in Google's Antigravity IDE that exfiltrates API keys with no user interaction — and Google classified it as expected behavior.
- [ChatGPT MCP Connector Security Vulnerability: Zero-Click Data Exfiltration Attack](https://repello.ai/blog/chatgpt-mcp-connector-security-vulnerability-zero-click-data-exfiltration-attack): Repello found a critical ChatGPT MCP connector flaw. One user confirmation after a malicious document triggers zero-click data exfiltration from connected apps.
- [Exploiting Zapier’s Gmail auto-reply agent for data exfiltration](https://repello.ai/blog/exploiting-zapier-s-gmail-auto-reply-agent-for-data-exfiltration): Repello shows how a Zapier Gmail auto-reply agent can be hijacked for data exfiltration. See the attack and how to secure your AI automation workflows.
- [Security threats in Agentic AI Browsers](https://repello.ai/blog/security-threats-in-agentic-ai-browsers): Agentic AI browsers like Comet and Dia face cross-context prompt injection risks. Repello shows how attackers hijack summarisation to run malicious commands.
- [Zero-Click Calendar Exfiltration Reveals MCP Security Risk in 11.ai](https://repello.ai/blog/zero-click-calendar-exfiltration-reveals-mcp-security-risk-in-11-ai): Repello found a zero-click MCP security flaw in 11.ai that silently exfiltrates calendar data. See the attack chain and implications for voice AI deployments.
- [Turning Background Noise into a Prompt Injection Attacks in Voice AI](https://repello.ai/blog/turning-background-noise-into-a-prompt-injection-attacks-in-voice-ai): Voice AI converts audio to text before LLM processing, opening a prompt injection path through background noise. Attackers embed commands in ambient audio.
- [MCP tool poisoning to RCE](https://repello.ai/blog/mcp-tool-poisoning-to-rce): MCP tool poisoning via rug pull: Repello shows SSH key exfiltration and RCE against Docker Command Analyzer. See the attack chain and how to stop it.
- [Distilled, but Dangerous? Assessing the Safety of Models Derived from DeepSeek-R1](https://repello.ai/blog/distilled-but-dangerous-assessing-the-safety-of-models-derived-from-deepseek-r1): DeepSeek-R1 distilled models inherit safety gaps from their teacher. Testing shows distilled variants produce harmful outputs the original would have blocked.
- [Emoji Prompt Injection: Why Your LLM's Guardrails Are Blind to It](https://repello.ai/blog/prompt-injection-using-emojis): Emoji prompt injection bypasses guardrails that tokenize Unicode as opaque symbols. LLMs read emoji meaning while filters treat them as harmless content.
- [From PyPI to 4TB: How Lapsus$ Breached Mercor Through a Python Package](https://repello.ai/blog/mercor-lapsus-litellm-breach): Lapsus$ claimed a 4TB Mercor breach via backdoored LiteLLM PyPI packages. See the full attack chain from Python dependency to Tailscale VPN data exfiltration.

## Definitive Technical Guides

- [AI Red Teaming: The Complete Guide for Security Teams (2026)](https://repello.ai/blog/the-essential-guide-to-ai-red-teaming-in-2024): AI red teaming helps security teams find exploitable LLM and agent vulnerabilities before attackers do. Follow this five-step methodology from scoping to fixes.
- [Prompt Injection: The Definitive Technical Guide (2026)](https://repello.ai/blog/prompt-injection): Prompt injection splits into direct and indirect attacks with different threat profiles. This guide covers payload mechanics, bypass methods, and defenses.
- [MCP Security: Why Best Practices Aren't Enough (And What Actually Works)](https://repello.ai/blog/mcp-security): MCP best practices cover authentication and logging but miss tool response injection and supply chain risks. Effective security needs runtime controls.
- [OWASP Agentic AI Top 10: Enterprise Security Roadmap for 2026](https://repello.ai/blog/owasp-agentic-ai-top-10-enterprise-security-roadmap-for-2026): OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 maps the top risks for AI agents with tool access. Build your 2026 security roadmap around these ten threat categories and controls.
- [OWASP LLM Top 10 : The 2026 Complete Guide with Real-World Incidents and Defenses](https://repello.ai/blog/owasp-llm-top-10-2026): OWASP LLM Top 10 v2.0 maps ten critical security risks with real incidents. Align red team coverage and security control design using this 2026 guide.
- [AI Supply Chain Attacks: The Complete Guide for Security Teams](https://repello.ai/blog/ai-supply-chain-attacks): AI supply chain attacks compromise dependencies, models, and pipelines your apps consume. This security guide maps the full attack surface and defenses.
- [What Is LLM Pentesting? A Practical Guide for Security Teams](https://repello.ai/blog/llm-pentesting): LLM pentesting for security teams: test prompt injection, jailbreaking, data leakage, and agentic tool abuse in deployed AI. Covers methodology and reporting.
- [AI Security Testing: A Complete Framework for Pre-Deployment and Continuous Testing](https://repello.ai/blog/ai-security-testing): AI security testing spans scoping, adversarial execution, triage, and regression. This four-phase CI/CD framework gates every deployment on security pass rates.
- [The CISO's Guide to Data Poisoning Risk in Enterprise AI Systems](https://repello.ai/blog/data-poisoning-machine-learning): Data poisoning risk: attacks target AI training pipelines, not deployed models. CISOs must secure the data supply chain against backdoor and RAG poisoning now.
- [AI Adversarial Attacks: Types, Examples, and Defences](https://repello.ai/blog/adversarial-attacks-ai): AI adversarial attacks span evasion, poisoning, prompt injection, jailbreaking, and RAG manipulation. No single defense covers all five attack categories.
- [LLM Guardrails: Complete Runtime Protection Guide for AI Applications](https://repello.ai/blog/llm-guardrails): LLM guardrails span five layers: input filtering, system prompt defense, output filtering, context monitoring, and agentic controls. Each blocks attacks.
- [Shadow AI: The Unauthorized AI Tools Already Running Inside Your Enterprise](https://repello.ai/blog/shadow-ai): Shadow AI tools run inside your enterprise without security visibility. Map unauthorized AI usage across SaaS integrations, browser extensions, and APIs.
- [Vector Embedding Security: Why Static Audits Miss the Real Attacks](https://repello.ai/blog/vector-embedding-security): Vector embeddings expose RAG pipelines to poisoning, retrieval hijack, and inversion attacks. Static audits miss them — runtime controls catch them.
- [AI Attack Surface Management: Understanding Your Enterprise's AI Blast Radius](https://repello.ai/blog/ai-attack-surface-management): AI attack surface management maps every model, agent, MCP server, and SaaS AI integration in your environment. Defend what you have fully inventoried.
- [How Attackers Jailbreak Enterprise AI Systems (And What Your Guardrails Miss)](https://repello.ai/blog/ai-jailbreak-enterprise): Attackers jailbreak enterprise AI via encoding, multilingual switching, multi-turn manipulation, and indirect injection. Each exploits structural guardrail gap.
- [Multi-Modal AI Security: Guardrails for Text, Image, and Audio Models](https://repello.ai/blog/multi-modal-ai-security): Multi-modal AI security fails when guardrails only scan text. Images, audio, and text create three input surfaces in one context that need separate protections.
- [MCP Prompt Injection: How Malicious Tool Responses Can Hijack Your AI Agent](https://repello.ai/blog/mcp-prompt-injection): MCP prompt injection via tool responses: content enters the AI agent context unfiltered. Attackers who write to connected data sources can hijack the agent.

## Reference

- [AI Security Glossary: 35 Key Terms Every Security Team Needs to Know](https://repello.ai/blog/ai-security-glossary): AI security spans 35 specialized terms across adversarial ML, LLM attacks, and agentic risks. This glossary aligns your team on precise shared definitions.
- [MITRE ATLAS Framework: A Practical Guide for AI Security Teams](https://repello.ai/blog/mitre-atlas-framework): MITRE ATLAS extends ATT&CK for AI security with 80+ techniques. Map red team findings to the framework and close coverage gaps with this operational guide.
- [Red teaming vs. penetration testing vs. vulnerability scanning: what AI security teams actually need](https://repello.ai/blog/ai-red-teaming-vs-penetration-testing): Vulnerability scanning finds CVEs. Pen testing is point-in-time. AI red teaming is the only security methodology built for probabilistic LLM and agentic risk.

## Glossary

- [Agent2Agent (A2A)](https://repello.ai/glossary/agent2agent): A2A is Google's open protocol for agent-to-agent communication, letting AI agents from different vendors discover each other and collaborate on tasks.
- [AI Agent](https://repello.ai/glossary/agent): An AI agent is a software system that uses an LLM to plan, decide, and take actions in an environment using tools, memory, and goal-directed reasoning.
- [AI Agent Framework](https://repello.ai/glossary/agent-framework): An AI agent framework is a library that handles the orchestration plumbing — control loop, tool calling, memory, multi-agent coordination — so developers focus on capability.
- [AI Alignment](https://repello.ai/glossary/alignment): AI alignment is the field that studies how to make AI systems pursue the goals their operators actually want, rather than nearby goals that look similar but aren't.
- [AI Guardrails](https://repello.ai/glossary/ai-guardrails): AI guardrails are runtime controls that filter LLM inputs and outputs to enforce safety, security, and compliance policies that the underlying model cannot guarantee.
- [AI Hallucination](https://repello.ai/glossary/hallucination): AI hallucination is when a language model produces confident, fluent output that is factually wrong or fabricated — a structural property of the technology, not a bug.
- [AI Red Teaming](https://repello.ai/glossary/ai-red-teaming): AI red teaming is the systematic adversarial testing of AI systems — LLMs, agents, RAG pipelines — to find exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers do.
- [AI-SPM (AI Security Posture Management)](https://repello.ai/glossary/ai-spm): AI-SPM is the discipline of continuously inventorying, assessing, and improving the security posture of AI assets — models, agents, data, integrations — across an enterprise.
- [AIBOM (AI Bill of Materials)](https://repello.ai/glossary/aibom): An AIBOM is a structured inventory of every AI component in a system — models, datasets, fine-tunes, adapters — analogous to SBOM but for AI supply chains.
- [Backdoor Attack](https://repello.ai/glossary/backdoor-attack): A backdoor attack embeds a hidden trigger in a model during training so it behaves normally on standard inputs but performs attacker-chosen actions when the trigger appears.
- [Chain-of-Thought (CoT)](https://repello.ai/glossary/chain-of-thought): Chain-of-thought prompting elicits step-by-step reasoning from a language model by asking it to show its work, dramatically improving performance on complex problems.
- [Constitutional AI](https://repello.ai/glossary/constitutional-ai): Constitutional AI is Anthropic's alignment method that uses a written set of principles to have a model self-critique and improve its outputs without human raters.
- [Context Window](https://repello.ai/glossary/context-window): The context window is the maximum number of tokens a language model can read in a single forward pass — both input prompt and generated output share that budget.
- [Embedding Inversion](https://repello.ai/glossary/embedding-inversion): Embedding inversion is an attack that reconstructs the original text from its vector embedding, breaking the assumption that embeddings are one-way and privacy-preserving.
- [Excessive Agency](https://repello.ai/glossary/excessive-agency): Excessive agency is when an AI system has more capability, permission, or autonomy than its task requires, expanding the blast radius of any compromise (OWASP LLM06).
- [Fine-Tuning](https://repello.ai/glossary/fine-tuning): Fine-tuning is the process of further training a pre-trained model on a smaller, task-specific dataset to specialize its behavior for a particular use case.
- [Foundation Model](https://repello.ai/glossary/foundation-model): A foundation model is a large neural network pre-trained on broad data that serves as the base for many downstream tasks via prompting or fine-tuning.
- [Indirect Prompt Injection](https://repello.ai/glossary/indirect-prompt-injection): Indirect prompt injection embeds adversarial instructions in content an AI system retrieves — web pages, documents, emails — so the model executes them without the user's knowledge.
- [LLM Jailbreak](https://repello.ai/glossary/jailbreak): An LLM jailbreak is a technique that bypasses a language model's safety training to make it produce content or take actions its operator restricted.
- [Many-Shot Jailbreaking](https://repello.ai/glossary/many-shot-jailbreaking): Many-shot jailbreaking exploits long context windows by stuffing the conversation with hundreds of fake assistant responses to harmful questions, then asking the real one.
- [MCP (Model Context Protocol)](https://repello.ai/glossary/mcp): MCP is an open standard from Anthropic that lets AI assistants connect to external tools and data sources through a uniform server interface.
- [MCP Server](https://repello.ai/glossary/mcp-server): An MCP server is a process that exposes tools, resources, and prompts to AI clients via the Model Context Protocol — the integration layer behind agentic apps.
- [Membership Inference Attack](https://repello.ai/glossary/membership-inference): A membership inference attack determines whether a specific data point was in a model's training set, leaking privacy and revealing what the model was trained on.
- [Model Extraction](https://repello.ai/glossary/model-extraction): Model extraction is an attack that steals a deployed model's behavior — and sometimes its weights — by querying it and training a copy on the input-output pairs.
- [Model Hijacking](https://repello.ai/glossary/model-hijacking): Model hijacking is an attack where an adversary repurposes a deployed AI model to perform tasks the model owner did not authorize, without retraining.
- [Multi-Modal Prompt Injection](https://repello.ai/glossary/multi-modal-injection): Multi-modal prompt injection embeds adversarial instructions in images, audio, or video that a multi-modal model processes — bypassing text-only input filters.
- [NIST AI RMF](https://repello.ai/glossary/nist-ai-rmf): The NIST AI RMF is the voluntary framework from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology for managing AI system risk across the lifecycle.
- [OWASP LLM Top 10](https://repello.ai/glossary/owasp-llm-top-10): The OWASP LLM Top 10 is the authoritative list of the most critical security risks specific to applications using large language models, maintained by OWASP.
- [Prompt Engineering](https://repello.ai/glossary/prompt-engineering): Prompt engineering is the practice of designing inputs to language models to reliably produce the desired output — the application-layer interface to a foundation model.
- [Prompt Injection](https://repello.ai/glossary/prompt-injection): Prompt injection is an attack where adversarial text inserted into an AI model's input causes it to ignore its instructions and follow the attacker's instead.
- [RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)](https://repello.ai/glossary/rag): RAG is an architecture that retrieves relevant documents from a knowledge base and injects them into a language model's context to ground its answers.
- [RAG Poisoning](https://repello.ai/glossary/rag-poisoning): RAG poisoning is an attack that injects malicious content into a retrieval-augmented generation system's knowledge base to manipulate the model's outputs.
- [RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback)](https://repello.ai/glossary/rlhf): RLHF is the alignment technique that fine-tunes language models using human preferences over outputs, the standard method behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
- [System Prompt](https://repello.ai/glossary/system-prompt): A system prompt is the hidden set of instructions a developer gives an LLM to define its persona, scope, tools, and forbidden behaviors before any user message.
- [System Prompt Extraction](https://repello.ai/glossary/system-prompt-extraction): System prompt extraction is an attack that recovers the hidden instructions a deployer set on an LLM application, exposing operating logic and downstream secrets.
- [Tokenization](https://repello.ai/glossary/tokenization): Tokenization is the process of splitting text into the discrete units (tokens) a language model actually reads and generates — the bottleneck where many AI security attacks hide.
- [Tool Abuse](https://repello.ai/glossary/tool-abuse): Tool abuse is when an AI agent uses the tools it has access to for purposes the operator didn't intend, often as a downstream effect of prompt injection or jailbreak.
- [Tool Poisoning](https://repello.ai/glossary/tool-poisoning): Tool poisoning is an attack where adversarial instructions are embedded in an AI agent's tool descriptions or responses to hijack its behavior.
- [Universal Jailbreak](https://repello.ai/glossary/universal-jailbreak): A universal jailbreak is a prompt that bypasses safety training on a wide range of harmful requests across multiple model families, generated by adversarial optimization.
- [Vector Database](https://repello.ai/glossary/vector-database): A vector database stores high-dimensional embeddings and supports fast nearest-neighbor search, the substrate for RAG, semantic search, and recommendations.
- [Vector Embedding](https://repello.ai/glossary/vector-embedding): A vector embedding is a numerical representation of text, image, or audio in a high-dimensional space, where semantically similar inputs land at nearby coordinates.

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