arXiv AI By Sanjay Kariyappa, Severin Klingler, G. Edward Suh

PIPES: Securing Agent Perception with Provenance and Priors

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arXiv:2608. 12789v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using agents consume external data from sources with different levels of trust, yet tool responses rarely identify who produced each component or what it should convey.

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PIPES: Securing Agent Perception with Provenance and Priors

Tool-using agents consume external data from sources with different levels of trust, yet tool responses rarely identify who produced each component or what it should convey. We show that this gap enables state-corruption attacks, in which attacker-controlled content makes environmental claims beyond the informational authority of its response component and corrupts the agent's perceived environment, making the resulting action appear justified to existing guardrails.