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- taintwarden-0.1.0/.gitignore +7 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/LICENSE +21 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/PKG-INFO +226 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/README.md +185 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/docs/PRESENTACION_ES.md +81 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/docs/PUBLICAR.md +37 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/docs/THREAT_MODEL.md +98 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/examples/http_sidecar.sh +19 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/examples/mcp_tools_poisoned.json +39 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/examples/pydantic_ai_logfire.py +70 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/examples/trace_attack.json +7 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/pyproject.toml +62 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/__init__.py +56 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/_version.py +1 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/bench/__init__.py +0 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/bench/agentdojo_oracle.py +459 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/bench/corpus.jsonl +86 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/bench/corpus.py +48 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/cli.py +293 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/detector.py +176 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/integrations/__init__.py +0 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/integrations/agentdojo.py +147 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/integrations/pydantic_ai.py +154 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/mcp_scan.py +158 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/models.py +123 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/normalize.py +144 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/policy.py +175 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/profiles/__init__.py +0 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/profiles/agentdojo.yaml +24 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/profiles/default.yaml +33 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/provenance.py +169 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/py.typed +0 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/server.py +170 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/telemetry.py +101 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/src/taintwarden/warden.py +387 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/tests/test_agentdojo.py +47 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/tests/test_core.py +157 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/tests/test_mcp_server_cli.py +99 -0
- taintwarden-0.1.0/tests/test_pydantic_ai.py +78 -0
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Name: taintwarden
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Version: 0.1.0
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Summary: Data-flow firewall for AI agents: blocks indirect prompt injection by tracking where every tool argument came from. Native Pydantic AI capability, Logfire telemetry, HTTP sidecar and CLI.
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Author: TaintWarden contributors
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Keywords: agentdojo,agents,ai-security,guardrails,llm,logfire,mcp,prompt-injection,pydantic-ai,taint-tracking
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Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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# TaintWarden
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**A data-flow firewall for AI agents.** TaintWarden stops indirect prompt injection by checking
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*where every tool argument came from* before the tool runs. It ships as a native
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AgentDojo pipeline element, a CI scanner and an MCP manifest auditor.
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pip install taintwarden # core + CLI (pydantic, typer, pyyaml)
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US133000000121212121212…"*. A capable model often obeys. A classifier has to catch every
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**act**, and the action carries the attacker's own data (their IBAN, e-mail, URL, file id). So:
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| No defence | 95.9 % | 100 % | 100 % | 0 % |
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