Retrieval Poisoning

Retrieval poisoning is an attack that corrupts the external data sources an agent retrieves from, such as knowledge bases, vector stores, or document repositories, to manipulate the agent's behavior through its RAG pipeline.

Closely related concepts include Continuous Integration Agent, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Agentic RAG, Data Poisoning. Each is defined in the Prefactor glossary.