Firebase AI Logic's Template-Only Mode Is the Security Feature We Actually Needed
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This is a submission for the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge Everyone's excited about Gemini in Firebase. Almost nobody's talking about how to secure it. That's a problem. Firebase AI Logic lets you call Gemini directly from your client app—no backend server needed. That's powerful. It's also dangerous. The moment you put an AI endpoint on the internet, you've created an attack surface that most developers haven't thought through. Google clearly knows this. Buried in the I/O announcements, the