arXiv AI By Bardia Mohammadi, Lars Klein, Akhil Arora, Laurent Bindschaedler

Ghost Tool Calls: Issue-Time Privacy for Speculative Agent Tools

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arXiv:2606. 02483v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented language agents speculatively issue likely future tool calls to hide latency, but those calls leak inferred user intent to external services before the agent commits to the branch.

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When Tool Calls Succeed but Workflows Fail: Anomalies at the Agent-Tool Boundary

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