BodhiPromptShield: Pre-Inference Prompt Mediation for Suppressing Privacy Propagation in LLM/VLM Agents

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Main Authors: Ma, Bo, Wu, Jinsong, Yan, Weiqi
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author Ma, Bo
Wu, Jinsong
Yan, Weiqi
author_facet Ma, Bo
Wu, Jinsong
Yan, Weiqi
contents In LLM/VLM agents, prompt privacy risk propagates beyond a single model call because raw user content can flow into retrieval queries, memory writes, tool calls, and logs. Existing de-identification pipelines address document boundaries but not this cross-stage propagation. We propose BodhiPromptShield, a policy-aware framework that detects sensitive spans, routes them via typed placeholders, semantic abstraction, or secure symbolic mapping, and delays restoration to authorized boundaries. Relative to enterprise redaction, this adds explicit propagation-aware mediation and restoration timing as a security variable. Under controlled evaluation on the Controlled Prompt-Privacy Benchmark (CPPB), stage-wise propagation suppresses from 10.7\% to 7.1\% across retrieval, memory, and tool stages; PER reaches 9.3\% with 0.94 AC and 0.92 TSR, outperforming generic de-identification. These are controlled systems results on CPPB rather than formal privacy guarantees or public-benchmark transfer claims. The project repository is available at https://github.com/mabo1215/BodhiPromptShield.git.
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spellingShingle BodhiPromptShield: Pre-Inference Prompt Mediation for Suppressing Privacy Propagation in LLM/VLM Agents
Ma, Bo
Wu, Jinsong
Yan, Weiqi
Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In LLM/VLM agents, prompt privacy risk propagates beyond a single model call because raw user content can flow into retrieval queries, memory writes, tool calls, and logs. Existing de-identification pipelines address document boundaries but not this cross-stage propagation. We propose BodhiPromptShield, a policy-aware framework that detects sensitive spans, routes them via typed placeholders, semantic abstraction, or secure symbolic mapping, and delays restoration to authorized boundaries. Relative to enterprise redaction, this adds explicit propagation-aware mediation and restoration timing as a security variable. Under controlled evaluation on the Controlled Prompt-Privacy Benchmark (CPPB), stage-wise propagation suppresses from 10.7\% to 7.1\% across retrieval, memory, and tool stages; PER reaches 9.3\% with 0.94 AC and 0.92 TSR, outperforming generic de-identification. These are controlled systems results on CPPB rather than formal privacy guarantees or public-benchmark transfer claims. The project repository is available at https://github.com/mabo1215/BodhiPromptShield.git.
title BodhiPromptShield: Pre-Inference Prompt Mediation for Suppressing Privacy Propagation in LLM/VLM Agents
topic Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05793