Agent Goal Hijacking Detection

Detects when an agent's objective is being redirected away from its original task through explicit redirection commands, subtle topic pivoting, urgency injection, or self-initiated goal changes. Goal hijacking occurs when adversarial input causes an agent to abandon its assigned objective and pursue a different goal, resulting in task failure, unauthorized actions, data leakage, or resource waste. This rule uses regex-only detection on both user input and agent output to identify redirection language patterns.

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