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BrokenClaw Part 5: GPT-5.4 Edition (Prompt Injection)

Details

External ID
47705780
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
BrokenClaw Part 5: GPT-5.4 Edition (Prompt Injection)
Website domain
codeberg.page
Launched
April 9, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
10
Upvotes percentile
0.5919023136246787
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

Some prompt injection experiments with OpenClaw and GPT-5.4. Last part of the BrokenClaw series.

Enrichment

Theme
ai image prompts and developer tools
Vertical
Security
Function
Observability & eval
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI feature
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
prompt injection vulnerability demonstration
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No This is offensive cybersecurity research demonstrating 0-click remote code execution via multi-stage prompt injection, requiring deep penetration testing expertise.

What it would actually take: Building these exploits involves analyzing agent execution loops, reverse-engineering tool sandboxes, and crafting complex payload encoding chains (such as base64/base85) to bypass multi-layer system guardrails. The core hurdle is offensive security methodology and low-level sandbox escape analysis rather than application programming. Executing this work demands seasoned application security researchers and penetration testers.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: hackmyclaw.com

Concerns raised: Challenge setup is a black box with unknown user intent, making realistic prompt injection testing difficult, Batch processing of emails every 3 hours may bias model behavior and introduce detection artifacts, Lack of disclosed information about version, config, and setup reduces realism, Email-only injection vector is limiting, False security claims based on unsolved challenges rather than actual security

Feature requests: Disclose setup details including version, user intent, and exact configuration, Provide access to fresh context for each experiment, Allow multiple injection vectors beyond email

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 33 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #16 of 34 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 67 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

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