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InboxWall sanitizes email HTML to prevent prompt injection for AI agents

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InboxWall is a new open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to enhance AI agent security by sanitizing email HTML before it reaches the language model. It operates locally, preventing sensitive email data from being sent to cloud services. The server strips potentially malicious elements like hidden CSS, Unicode tricks, and embedded instructions, ensuring that only clean, plain text is fed into the LLM's context window. AI

IMPACT Enhances AI agent security by mitigating prompt injection risks from email data.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new open-source tool for enhancing AI agent security.

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InboxWall sanitizes email HTML to prevent prompt injection for AI agents

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · mech.app ·

    InboxWall: How a Local-First MCP Server Sanitizes Email HTML to Stop Prompt Injection Before the LLM Sees It

    <p>Email is a hostile data source. When you give an AI agent access to your inbox, you hand it HTML that may contain hidden CSS directives, Unicode obfuscation, and invisible text designed to manipulate the LLM's context window. InboxWall is an open-source MCP server that sanitiz…

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