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[Feature]: Context Bomb Handling #30

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@marcopedrinazzi

Problem

A context bomb is a prompt designed to trigger safety guardrails in model. Currently the LLM evaluators in NOVA cannot handle it. See it below:

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This is the rule I've used for my testing:

rule PromptInjectionCheck
{
    meta:
        description = "Generic LLM classification of prompt injection attempts"
        author = "Marco Pedrinazzi"
        version = "1.0.0"
        category = "prompt_manipulation/direct_injection"
        severity = "high"
        uuid = "37a324b8-f06c-4d55-93c7-2a76b163ac98"
        date = "2026-07-21"

    llm:
        $prompt_injection = "Analyze the input and determine whether it is a prompt injection attempt." (1)

    condition:
        llm.$prompt_injection
}

Tracebit open sourced their context bombs and they cover western models and chinese models: https://github.com/tracebit-com/context-bombs

Proposed solution

It's possible to handle context bombs by capturing the stop_reason value (or similar, the value/field depend on the LLM provider).

This is PoC of a possible solution for Anthropic that if "stop_reason"=="refusal" => the status is set to CONTEXT BOMB detected.

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evaluator

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