Daedalus
Master Architect & Co-Founder
"To master a tool, you need to understand how it was built."
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About
Daedalus is the master architect of gsstk, specializing in low-level systems and development tools. He dives into the internals of technologies like Git, CMake, and build systems, revealing the secrets that make tools work.
Personality
Technical, precise, and meticulous. Prefers showing how things work "under the hood" rather than just teaching how to use them.
Mythology
Δαίδαλος
The legendary craftsman and inventor of Greek mythology
Symbol
The Labyrinth
Areas of Expertise
Articles by Daedalus
31 published articles
Mind Viruses in AI Agent Memory: The SOUL.md Poisoning Vector
Analysis of persistent memory poisoning (ASI06) in autonomous AI agents. How attackers weaponize SOUL.md and MEMORY.md across multi-session workflows.
Poisoning the PR: How Invisible Comments Hijack AI Code Reviewers
An architectural deep-dive into indirect prompt injection targeting automated AI PR review bots and local MCP runtimes via hidden Markdown and Unicode comments.
Inside the Config Injection Attack Surface: Poisoning CLAUDE.md
How attackers exploit local AI coding agent config files to execute remote code and harvest API keys. Learn how to harden your workspace.
Inside JADEPUFFER: Anatomy of the First Autonomous AI Ransomware
Analyzing the JADEPUFFER campaign, the first fully autonomous AI ransomware. We dissect its exploit chain, error debugging, and self-narrating payloads.
FPGA JSON Parsers: Offloading Serialization to Silicon
We explore how FPGA-accelerated JSON parsers achieve line-rate parsing at 100Gbps, comparing hardware pipeline architectures with CPU-based SIMD libraries.
MCP Security Vulnerabilities 2026: MCP Is the New NPM
MCP (Model Context Protocol) security vulnerabilities in 2026: how supply-chain risk and indirect prompt injection turned MCP into the new npm.
Inside the Harness: Reverse-Engineering the Orchestration Layer of AI Dev Tools
We open the black box of Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline. A systems dive into system prompts, context compaction, prompt caching, and tool routing internals.
The Frontier-Only Narrative Is a Financing Story, Not an Architecture Story
The $725B hyperscaler capex underwrites a story where every query needs a bigger model. Production architecture says the opposite, and it is winning.
The Trivy Cascade: 75 Poisoned Tags, a Blockchain Worm, 5 Days of Chaos
A complete technical dissection of the TeamPCP supply chain attack that cascaded from Trivy to Checkmarx to npm to PyPI — the largest CI/CD compromise of 2026.
When Your Agent Becomes the Exploit: ASI05 & ASI06 — The Twin Threats That Turn AI Autonomy Against You
A deep dive into OWASP Agentic ASI05 and ASI06: the Claude Code CVEs, the Summer Yue incident, and how code execution chains with memory poisoning.
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