At Third Key AI, we’re constantly looking at the horizon of security threats. The rapid integration of AI and Large Language Models into enterprise environments has created a landscape of new, subtle, and largely unexplored attack surfaces. One of the most fascinating and concerning of these is the potential for AI’s own infrastructure to be turned against itself.

As AI agents become increasingly sophisticated and autonomous, they rely heavily on external tools and services to extend their capabilities. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a standard for AI agents to interact with these tools, but this creates a critical security vulnerability: how do we ensure that tool schemas haven’t been maliciously modified?

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