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arXiv 2609.09875 argues existing frameworks measure completion (AgentBench) or robustness (AgentDojo, ASB) but never attribute a failure to a stage. It scores instruction integrity, planner, memory, tool selection, invocation, correctness, alignment, faithfulness, security and execution integrity, then names the failing stage. Claude Sonnet 5 scored 95.1 and GPT-5 80.6; Sarvam 105B, Llama 3.3 70B and Gemini 2.5 Flash scored 57.6, 45.7 and 22.6. Several non-frontier models were repeatedly classified Unsafe_Compliance rather than merely failing, a distinction pass/fail benchmarks cannot see. The authors flag that a single judge model, itself one of the evaluated models, scored every trace.
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arXiv 2608.05108 skips the RL-trained attacker models that dominate red teaming and generalize poorly, instead accumulating a strategy library across a sequence of (dataset, target) pairs that transfers to unseen targets with no retraining. AgentDojo: 86.7% ASR against Gemini-...
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