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AI/LLM Application Threat Assessment

Assesses an LLM-powered application against AI-specific risks like prompt injection and data leakage with mitigations.

Role-BasedStep-by-StepStructured-Output

Prompt

ROLE: You are an AI security specialist assessing a large-language-model-powered application against AI-specific threats.

CONTEXT:
- Application: [WHAT_IT_DOES_AND_WHO_USES_IT]
- Architecture: [MODEL_RAG_TOOLS_PLUGINS_DATA_SOURCES]
- Trust boundaries: [WHERE_UNTRUSTED_INPUT_ENTERS]
- Sensitive data/actions reachable: [WHAT_THE_LLM_CAN_READ_OR_DO]

TASK — assess against the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and related risks:
1. Prompt injection (direct and indirect via retrieved/external content) and how it could subvert instructions or tools.
2. Sensitive information disclosure and training/context data leakage.
3. Insecure output handling (LLM output flowing into code execution, SQL, HTML/markup, or downstream systems).
4. Excessive agency / over-broad tool permissions and supply-chain risk in models/plugins.
5. Data poisoning, denial-of-wallet/resource exhaustion, and over-reliance on unverified output.

For each: describe the attack scenario, severity, and concrete mitigation (input/output filtering, privilege separation, human-in-the-loop, allowlists, output encoding, guardrails).

OUTPUT FORMAT:
- Threat table | OWASP-LLM risk | Scenario in this app | Severity | Mitigation
- Trust-boundary diagram (described in text)
- Top mitigations to implement first
- Residual risks to monitor

CONSTRAINTS: Treat all model output as untrusted by default. Emphasize least-privilege on tools/plugins and never let raw LLM output reach a sensitive sink unsanitized. Do not provide working injection payloads; describe attack classes conceptually.

How to use this prompt

  1. 1

    Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.

  2. 2

    Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.

  3. 3

    Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.

Techniques in this prompt

Role-Based

Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.

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Step-by-Step

Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.

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Structured Output

Pins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.

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