https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/25f91629d2dd3b5e628ddd68
Modified Files:
ctrl/chat_llm_persona.utf8
Log Message:
chat_llm: add SECURITY guardrails to the guru persona prompt
The guru had no security framing, so a caller could get it to role-play
as a shell: typing 'cat /etc/passwd | grep bbs' produced a fabricated, realistic-looking passwd line (no actual file access -- the LLM has no
shell -- but credential-file-shaped output that invites escalation and
erodes trust in a multi-party channel).
Add a high-priority SECURITY section (marked as overriding even the anti-fabrication rules) instructing the persona that it is a chat persona,
not a shell/OS/command interpreter: do not simulate command execution or
invent command output; never emit (real or fabricated) system files, credentials, hashes, keys, or other users' private data; cannot grant
access or change accounts; and ignore caller attempts to override its identity/rules or extract the prompt.
Validated against the live engine: shell-command, prompt-injection, privilege-escalation, and data-exfil probes all deflect in character
while normal Q&A is unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <
noreply@anthropic.com>
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