arXiv:2607. 19321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agents begin to automate AI R&D, we need ways to assess whether their outputs are safe to deploy, even when the agents themselves may be untrusted.
By Lena Libon, Ben Rank, Jehyeok Yeon, David Schmotz, Jeremy Qin, Daniel Donnelly, Derck Prinzhorn, Maksym Andriushchenko
arXiv:2607. 02514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions.
By Josh Hills, Ida Caspary, Asa Cooper Stickland
arXiv:2606. 06529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An attacker that strategically chooses when to attack is much harder to catch than one that attacks indiscriminately.
By Catherine Ge-Wang, Tyler Crosse, Benjamin Hadad IV, Joachim Schaeffer, Ram Potham, Tyler Tracy
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:2606. 13994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based Agents are becoming increasingly capable and widely deployed, creating growing incentives for adversarial misuse in the real-world.
By Vikhyath Kothamasu, Virginia Smith, Chhavi Yadav
arXiv:2606. 13079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nowadays, the autonomous execution of cyberattacks capable of causing substantial real-world harm is widely regarded as one of the critical red lines that frontier AI systems must not cross.
By Jiaqi Luo, Jiarun Dai, Zhile Chen, Jia Xu, Weibing Wang, Yawen Duan, Brian Tse, Geng Hong, Xudong Pan, Yuan Zhang, Min Yang