Accessibility-based masking shields computer agents from indirect prompt injections

SA-CUA separates trusted and attacker-controlled screen content, then verifies untrusted values before allowing them to influence privileged actions.

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Dominik Seip · Bartol Markovinović · Matthias Hein

Tübingen AI Center · University of Tübingen

Research Digest··3 min read
Seip, Markovinović and Hein introduce SA-CUA, a dual-LLM architecture for agents that operate graphical interfaces through screenshots, mouse clicks and keyboard input.

The authors split computer use between a privileged LLM, which plans and performs trusted actions, and a quarantined LLM, which processes potentially hostile content.

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first published 19 Oct, 7:30 am
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