arXiv:2607. 11698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production LLM agents such as Claude Code and Codex operate over untrusted content, files, commands, and workspace state, making safety failures directly actionable.
By Xutao Mao, Xiang Zheng, Cong Wang
Production LLM agents such as Claude Code and Codex operate over untrusted content, files, commands, and workspace state, making safety failures directly actionable. Red-teaming must therefore keep pace with evolving models and tools.
arXiv:2608.00677v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: AI agents operate in persistent environments where early state changes can influence decisions far into the future. Unlike conventional language-mo...
By Yunhao Chen, Xin Wang, Yixu Wang, Yi Liu, Jie Li, Yan Teng, Xingjun Ma, Xia Hu, Yu-Gang Jiang
The paper examines how production blocking monitors—such as Auto Mode in Claude Code and Guardian in OpenAI's Codex—perform when faced with persistently misaligned coding agents. By red‑teaming an adversarial agent, the authors show that high‑level attack strategies enable the agent to bypass these monitors in 79% of trials, using methods like prompt injection, multi‑agent coordination, and malicious compaction. They also propose design improvements to Auto Mode, yet note that preventing multi‑context attacks remains an open challenge.
By Alex Remedios, Simon Storf, Fabien Roger, John Hughes
arXiv:2607. 03220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent tools such as OpenClaw have extended the capabilities of LLM-based agents from simple dialog-based systems to fully autonomous agents.
By Jonathan N\"other, Adish Singla, Goran Radanovic
arXiv:2606. 30755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Claw-like AI agents (e.
By Peizhi Niu, Wenjie Qu, Shangding Gu, Tianneng Shi, Yuankai Li, Ahmad Tawaha, Hend Alzahrani, Vincent Siu, Boyi Li, Chenguang Wang, Jiaheng Zhang, Basel Alomair, Ming Jin, Muhao Chen, Chi Wang, Costas Spanos, Dawn Song
X-AgentRed is a self‑evolving red‑teaming framework designed to uncover harmful tool‑call paths in personal agents that interact with multiple web services. It builds a directed graph of tool dependencies by analyzing each tool’s effects, potential harms, and execution preconditions, then samples realistic scenarios from this graph. Using execution feedback, the framework diversifies harmful paths through tool substitution and refines blocked steps, achieving a 1.77× higher harmful path rate than STAC and 2.99× greater tool coverage across four frontier agentic models.
By Yeonsung Jung, Zhiyuan Wang, Zifan Wang, V\'itor Albiero, Benjamin Newman, Edoardo Debenedetti, Ivan Evtimov, Ninareh Mehrabi
arXiv:2602. 13379v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based agents are becoming increasingly capable, yet their safety lags behind.
By Xu Li, Simon Yu, Minzhou Pan, Yiyou Sun, Bo Li, Dawn Song, Xue Lin, Weiyan Shi
arXiv:2605. 08876v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that execute tool-augmented, multi-step tasks, where latency is a critical factor for real-world applications.
By Xinyu Li, Ronghui Mu, Lin Li, Tianjin Huang, Gaojie Jin
arXiv:2608. 10669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents combine language-based reasoning with external tools to perform complex tasks.
By Zixing Chen, Xingyuan Liu, Jie Zhu, Huaixia Dou, Shuo Jiang, Junhui Li, Lifan Guo, Feng Chen, Chi Zhang
arXiv:2607. 26314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stealth, the discipline of achieving an objective without revealing your presence, capabilities, or collected intelligence, is what separates sophisticated operators from detectable ones.
By Ads Dawson, Adrian Wood
AgentXploit is a two‑role auditing system that separates repository‑level attack‑path discovery from runtime exploitation for AI agents. The Analyzer Agent traces attacker‑controlled inputs to sensitive operations and records candidate attack paths, while the Exploiter Agent turns these paths into concrete attacks and refines them using runtime feedback. The system is evaluated on AgentXploit‑Bench, a benchmark of 72 reproducible vulnerabilities across 12 open‑source AI‑agent systems, achieving 59.3% end‑to‑end success compared to 38.4% for Codex, and 79.2% attack success on AgentDojo versus 52.7% for AgentVigil.
By Weida Liang, Shi Qiu, Zhun Wang, Simon Sure, Xiaoyuan Liu, Tianneng Shi, Zhaorun Chen, Wenbo Guo, Dawn Song