Overview
What this challenge is about.
Redesign a consumer AI agent prompt to block 60 injection attacks at 97% success. Earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The startup (Series B, around 90 staff, around 8M monthly active users) needs to clear a SOC 2 attestation in the next quarter; an unmitigated prompt-injection finding would block the audit.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Harden a support-agent's prompt stack against direct and indirect prompt injection while preserving benign answer quality.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Distinguish direct and indirect prompt-injection attack patterns
- Apply structured-delimiter and input-scanning defenses in a prompt stack
- Run a red-team eval and report findings honestly
- Translate prompt-security work into language a security team can sign off on
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Prompt Engineering
Master · Generative Ai
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Prompt Engineering at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Prompt Injection Defense
Apply prompt injection defense to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- System Prompt Design
Apply system prompt design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Red Teaming
Apply red teaming to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Input Validation
Apply input validation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Prompt Evaluation
Apply prompt evaluation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Security Mindset
Apply security mindset to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
AI Safety Researcher
Hardening a deployed agent against prompt injection with a red-team eval is the exact entry-level work AI safety researchers do at consumer AI companies.
This challenge sharpens
- prompt-injection-defense
- red-teaming
- security-mindset
Prompt Engineer
Owning the system prompt + delimiter design and proving it with a red-team set is core prompt-engineer territory in any production deployment.
This challenge sharpens
- system-prompt-design
- prompt-evaluation
- input-validation
AI Engineer
Defense-in-depth around a model API plus a regression-aware eval harness is the kind of glue AI engineers ship.
This challenge sharpens
- input-validation
- prompt-evaluation
- system-prompt-design