arXiv:2607. 05743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents now read repositories, call tools, and execute shell commands with limited human oversight, and a fast-growing body of work studies whether the execution layer around them is actually safe.
By Mohammadreza Rashidi
arXiv:2608. 16402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model-based agentic frameworks primarily optimize capability: whether an agent can reason, retrieve information, call tools, delegate work, and complete a goal.
By Bhaskar Tripathi, Anurag Kumar, Ramendra Kumar, Bhavesh Gadhe
arXiv:2607. 22569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents are increasingly integrated into system operations, where their tool use can directly modify project artifacts, execution environments, and the underlying system.
By Yifei Ge, Weisong Sun, Jinkun Xiao, Yuchen Chen, Yebo Feng, Peizhuo Lv, Xia Feng, Chunrong Fang, Zhihong Zhao, Zhenyu Chen, Yang Liu
arXiv:2605. 27898v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As LLMs are increasingly deployed as agents, reliable assessment of their agentic capabilities has become essential.
By Pengyu Zhu, Lijun Li, Yaxing Lyu, Qianxin Luo, Jingyi Yang, Yi Liu, Tingfeng Hui, Xinyu Yuan, Li Sun, Sen Su, Jing Shao
arXiv:2606. 02965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks for autonomous agents measure whether agents complete tasks, yet this framing is systematically blind to whether an agent should have proceeded at all.
By Victor Ojewale, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
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
The paper "From Approval to Abuse: Privilege Escalation Attacks on Harness-Protected Coding Agents" examines how coding agents that use execution harnesses to enforce permission boundaries can be tricked into granting overly broad allow-rules. By planting adversarial context in a repository, attackers can steer an agent into requesting a plausibly justified yet dangerously wide permission, which, if approved, lets the agent bypass the harness and execute malicious actions without further human oversight. Experiments on platforms such as Claude Code and Codex CLI show that 58% of trials succeed in eliciting such rules, which then cover 56.9% of category-specific capability tests and enable silent goal completion in 81% of approved cases, thereby undermining the safety promise of human-in-the-loop oversight.
By Xianglin Yang, Yechao Zhang, Jiahao Liu, Yulin Chen, Yuxin Cao, Bryan Hooi, Jiaheng Zhang
arXiv:2609.26048v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Language-model agents often reach a working solution and then fail to consistently deliver it. We study runtime policies: targeted natural-language i...
By Nikita Agarwal, Nivedit Jain
arXiv:2510. 01359v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Code-capable large language model (LLM) agents are embedded in software engineering workflows where they can read, write, and execute code, raising "jailbreak" stakes beyond text-only settings.
By Shoumik Saha, Jifan Chen, Sam Mayers, Sanjay Krishna Gouda, Zijian Wang, Varun Kumar
arXiv:2610.15924v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Agent environments are essential for large language model (LLM) development. They use programmatic verifiers to turn complex outcomes into rewards. V...
By Chong Zeng, Ziqian Zhong, Kexun Zhang, Ivan Bercovich, Ivgeni Segal, Yuzhen Mao, Shashwat Saxena, Aditi Raghunathan
arXiv:2606. 19380v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Software engineering and deployment are increasingly delegated to AI coding agents.
By Kenneth Ge, Andre Assis
The paper introduces Aegis, a runtime governance system for agentic AI that treats model outputs as action proposals and mediates them through a trusted decision layer before tool execution. Aegis evaluates proposals against active policy, resolves provenance server‑side, fails closed under uncertainty, and routes selected cases through a Senate‑style settlement process. In a sandbox evaluation across 6,300 rows, Aegis prevented all governed mock‑tool applications and risky side‑effect completions, preserving provenance and quorum evidence for all settled cases.
By Adam Mazzocchetti