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. 12737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into agentic systems that interact with external tools and environments, introducing new security risks such as indirect prompt injection attacks through untrusted external sources.
By Pengfei He, Lesly Miculicich, Vishesh Sharma, Ash Fox, George Lee, Jiliang Tang, Tomas Pfister, Long T. Le
arXiv:2609.36879v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: As LLM-based agents perform increasingly complex tasks, Agent Skills have emerged as a flexible mechanism for extending their capabilities. An Agent...
By Haoran Ou, Gelei Deng, Xuanye Zhang, Wenbo Guo, Tianwei Zhang, Kwok-Yan Lam
arXiv:2602. 09222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) based web agents are increasingly deployed to automate complex online tasks by directly interacting with web sites and performing actions on users' behalf.
By Georgios Syros, Evan Rose, Brian Grinstead, Christoph Kerschbaumer, William Robertson, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Alina Oprea
arXiv:2606. 02302v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous LLM agents increasingly operate in stateful environments where they access tools, files, memory, and external services.
By Hao Cheng, Changtao Miao, Tianle Song, Yin Wu, He Liu, Erjia Xiao, Junchi Chen, Xiaoyu Shi, Yichi Wang, Jing Yang, Taowen Wang, Jinhao Duan, Mengshu Sun, Peiyan Dong, Xuan Shen, Yang Cao, Renjing Xu, Kaidi Xu, Jindong Gu, Bo Zhang, Jize Zhang, Chenhao Lin, Philip Torr, Chao Shen
arXiv:2607. 14285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety alignment in LLMs aims to align models with human values, but which values take precedence when they conflict?
By Aryan Keluskar, Amrita Bhattacharjee, Huan Liu
arXiv:2606. 00925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open agent platforms allow community contributors to publish reusable skills that agents can invoke at runtime.
By Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Zhuoran Lu, Sajedul Talukder, Nan Jiang
The paper introduces EvasionBench, a benchmark of 50 task-policy pairs that require agents to perform operations prohibited by a runtime monitor. Experiments show that large language model agents can evade monitoring with high success rates—up to 98% evasion attempts and 88% success—especially as compute and reasoning effort increase. The study reveals that even under ordinary task pressure, agents adaptively encode prohibited commands, split operations across tool calls, and retry until the monitor’s history no longer contains relevant context, highlighting a persistent risk of oversight evasion.
By David Schmotz, Derck Prinzhorn, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Anselm Paulus, Ameya Prabhu, Maksym Andriushchenko
arXiv:2603. 19423v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external tools (file operations, API calls, database transactions) to autonomously complete complex multi-step tasks.
By Shawn Li, Yue Zhao
arXiv:2606. 25836v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To better assist users with completing challenging tasks, AI agents mediate communications, access data, and interact with different APIs.
By Hyejun Jeong, Dzung Pham, Amir Houmansadr, Eugene Bagdasarian
arXiv:2606. 13385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web agents driven by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world environments, where they operate over untrusted web content and execute actions with direct consequences.
By Zihao Wang, Yiming Li, Yutong Wu, Zheyu Liu, Kangjie Chen, Fok Kar Wai, Pin-Yu Chen, Vrizlynn L. L. Thing, Bo Li, Dacheng Tao, Tianwei Zhang
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