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DUMA-Bench extends tau²-bench with adversarial environments covering eight vulnerability classes including RAG poisoning, cross-agent manipulation and unsafe output handling, and argues most agent security evaluation assumes a passive user with static control. Under dual control, where agent and user both change shared environment state, attack success across 14 models from five families over eight domains climbs 14 points. Agent security is a property of the interaction loop, not of the model you picked. (arXiv 2609.24662)
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ADeptS-Bench tests seven models on paired benign and malicious GUI tasks and finds none clearing 80% task success while staying under 30% attack success. The ablation is the usable finding: removing the refusal tool raises attack success 21-23pp for tool-dependent models and 1...
arXiv 2608.11878 replaces the handful of manually implemented injection-testing environments with an Environment Simulator, Attacker Agent, and User Simulator that generate executable stateful environments and discover viable injection points automatically. Injection timing an...
This method compresses redundant attempts into nested shortcut trees, reconciles issues across levels using recovery evidence, and summarizes completed branches while expanding unresolved ones, with no post-hoc outcome labels or expert annotation. Under a source-paired protoco...
Every coding agent leaderboard number you've seen was produced in conditions your security team would reject on sight. Researchers from Accomplish AI and NYU open-sourced Boundary-Bench on August 5. The setup: 12 frontier agent harnesses, roughly 10,000 runs, 89 Terminal-Bench...
PCAS: Policy Compiler for Secure Agentic Systems — The first paper to provide measured enforcement results for agent policy compliance (48% to 93%). Uses dependency graphs and Datalog-derived policy language with a reference monitor intercepting all actions. Three case studies...
arXiv 2608.00765 compresses retrieved docs into query-conditioned visual representations, sidestepping the trade-off where hard compression is query-aware but weak and soft compression is strong but needs costly offline encoding. Beats both baselines across varying retrieval d...
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