Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent

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Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent
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Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public agent could be prompt-injected into posting /adk-issue-fix as adk-bot. They identified the bot as a collaborator, so that comment satisfied

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