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🎯 What: The vulnerability fixed

Prompt injection vulnerability in reasoningbank/core/matts.py where user-controlled variables (query, trajectory, formatted_memories) were directly interpolated into LLM prompts using f-strings.

⚠️ Risk: The potential impact if left unfixed

Malicious users could provide crafted queries or trajectories that hijack the LLM's instructions, potentially leading to unauthorized data access, generation of inappropriate content, or bypassing of system constraints.

🛡️ Solution: How the fix addresses the vulnerability

The fix replaces direct f-string interpolation with LangChain's PromptTemplate. This approach separates the prompt structure from the data, which is a standard security best practice. Additionally, it uses StrOutputParser to ensure that refined trajectories are always handled as strings, preventing dictionary-to-string interpolation issues.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 7835122084557253238 started by @thakshak

This commit addresses a security vulnerability where user-controlled input
was directly interpolated into LLM prompts using f-strings in
`parallel_scaling` and `sequential_scaling`.

Changes:
- Replaced f-string prompt construction with LangChain `PromptTemplate`.
- Implemented synthesis and refinement as LCEL chains (`PromptTemplate | LLM | StrOutputParser`).
- Ensured proper variable passing to avoid nested/pre-interpolated prompts.
- Added a mock-based test suite in `tests/test_fix_injection.py` to verify the fix.
- Cleaned up unused imports.

Co-authored-by: thakshak <4521163+thakshak@users.noreply.github.com>
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