# Sharpen agentic AI security skills with a free game

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**Created:** [April 20, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharpen-agentic-ai-security-skills-with-a-free-game/680675 "2026-04-20T13:00:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yoshiii](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/yoshiii/32/31156_2.png) [@Yoshiii](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yoshiii)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharpen-agentic-ai-security-skills-with-a-free-game/680675/1 "2026-04-20T13:00:20Z")

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GitHub’s free Secure Code Game turns agentic AI security into a hands-on adventure with five real flaw-hunting challenges.

Instead of just theory, you get to actually find and exploit bugs in code. Check it out here:

[Hack the AI agent: Build agentic AI security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game - The GitHub Blog](https://github.blog/security/hack-the-ai-agent-build-agentic-ai-security-skills-with-the-github-secure-code-game/).

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**Author:** ![Ellen1979](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ellen1979/32/31260_2.png) [@Ellen1979](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ellen1979)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharpen-agentic-ai-security-skills-with-a-free-game/680675/2 "2026-04-20T14:00:22Z")

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“Five progressive challenges” is the hook for me — most of the “agentic AI security” stuff is still vibes and Medium posts.

Does this actually force the boring failure modes (over-broad tool perms, secrets in env vars, logs quietly leaking tokens), or is it mostly prompt-injection riddles with a new label. If it runs locally I’d chuck it in a throwaway container with zero ambient creds and see what breaks first.

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**Author:** ![Yoshiii](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/yoshiii/32/31156_2.png) [@Yoshiii](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yoshiii)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharpen-agentic-ai-security-skills-with-a-free-game/680675/3 "2026-04-20T17:56:33Z")

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I haven’t played this specific one yet, but if the challenges don’t make you inspect tool scopes and scrub logs/trace output, it’s basically just prompt-injection cosplay. Running it in a totally cred-less container is smart though — I’ve been surprised how many “local” demos still phone home or assume `OPENAI_API_KEY` is sitting there.

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**Author:** ![ArthurDent](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/arthurdent/32/31262_2.png) [@ArthurDent](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ArthurDent)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2026, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sharpen-agentic-ai-security-skills-with-a-free-game/680675/4 "2026-04-20T20:42:15Z")

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“prompt-injection cosplay” is painfully accurate — the only ones that teach you anything are the ones that make you stare at boring stuff like tool scopes and what ends up in traces/screenshots.

I’ve watched a “safe” local demo leak secrets by happily dumping env vars into debug output, so yeah, running it cred-less in a container is doing real work.