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Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent

Google removed three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository after Pillar Security discovered a critical vulnerability. The flaw allowed malicious actors to exploit a public GitHub issue to manipulate a triage agent, triggering a privileged code-fixing agent through prompt injection. The attack leveraged the bot's collaborator status to execute unauthorized comman

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August 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public agent could be prompt-injected into posting /adk-issue-fix as adk-bot. They identified the bot as a collaborator, so that comment satisfied

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