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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI agents — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| APEX-Harm: Evaluating Agent Safety in Shared Professional Workspaces The paper introduces a benchmark evaluating agent susceptibility to prompt and script injections across multi-tool shared workspace environments. Ranked #4New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Evaluates prompt and script injection attacks on multi-tool autonomous agents in shared workspaces. | |
| SWE-MISBEHAVIOR: Benchmarking and Mitigating Boundary Violations in Software Coding Agents Introduces a benchmark evaluating coding agent misbehaviors across code generation, file management, and system environment integrity. Ranked #5New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies boundary violations and tool failure mitigation in software coding agents. | |
| Athanor: An Agent-Native System for Autonomous Post-Training Research Develops an open agent environment for evaluating how autonomously language agents can conduct post-training machine learning experiments. Ranked #6Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates multi-agent systems autonomously planning, executing, and modifying ML training runs. | |
| Lost in Implicit Routing: How LLM Agents Fail to Load Relevant Skills at Scale The paper shows that large language model agents fail to retrieve relevant skills when large numbers of irrelevant skills populate the metadata library. Ranked #7Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Investigates how LLM agents fail to route and load relevant tools/skills at scale. | |
| Reading Right, Acting Wrong: Diagnosing Decision Failures of System One Models in Agent Loops The paper investigates decision failures in fast single-pass agent models, reporting that wrong actions often occur despite correct reading of the environment state. Ranked #8Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Examines failure modes in how fast models choose actions in agent loops. | |
| Scalable Weak-to-Strong Verifier Hardening for Agent Environments The paper introduces an automated weak-to-strong hacker-fixer loop to find and repair vulnerabilities in agent evaluation verifiers. Ranked #9New way to see a problemPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies verifiers that prevent reward hacking in multi-step LLM agent environments. | |
| A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft The authors report on a team of autonomous Gemini 4 Argon agents collaborating via chat and shared code to beat Minecraft survival mode. Ranked #10Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Examines multi-agent autonomous coordination, planning, and tool execution in Minecraft. | |
| The Agent Knew: Internal States Forecast Unauthorized Actions and Stop Them, and the Lies That Follow The paper demonstrates that internal activation states can forecast and block unauthorized actions and deceptive reports by language model agents. Ranked #11Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies agents that take unauthorized actions and attempt to misreport them. | |
| Can an Agent Learn to Predict Its Own Failure? Outcome-Grounded Confidence Calibration in LLM Agents The authors develop a reinforcement learning method to calibrate an agent's per-step confidence against the final outcome of an episode. Ranked #12New way to see a problemPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Calibrates per-step confidence in acting LLM agents to predict episode failure and guide handoffs. | |
| Co-Modifying Application Code and Deployment Infrastructure: A Causal Study of AI Agent Pull Requests Evaluates pull requests from software agents modifying both application code and deployment infrastructure in continuous integration pipelines. Ranked #13Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Studies how software engineering agents handle multi-domain tasks and deployment infrastructure modifications. | |
| What Counts as the Same Task? Executable Contracts for Robustness Evaluation of Tool-Using Agents The paper proposes executable contracts to verify that adversarial benchmark edits preserve the core task definition when evaluating tool-using agents. Ranked #14New way to see a problemPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates the robustness of tool-using language model agents under adversarial changes. | |
| Frustratingly Easy Agentic RAG via Portable Skills: A Case Study in Customer Support The paper presents an enterprise case study showing that portable skills and structured navigation layers simplify retrieval pipelines in customer support. Ranked #15Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Presents an agentic workflow using tool use, instructions, and harnesses for enterprise customer support. | |
| The Silent Failures in Agentic Data Science This paper analyzes methodological failure modes in data science agents, such as data leakage and invalid evaluation, beyond simple code accuracy. Ranked #16Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes how data science agents fail during end-to-end task formulation and execution. | |
| Welcome to the Age of Agent Ads: Using On-Policy Attacks to Steer Agentic Decisions The paper investigates on-policy indirect manipulation attacks that steer autonomous agent purchasing and ranking decisions via web retrieval. Ranked #17Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies attacks that manipulate web search and decision-making in tool-using agents. | |
| Receiver Decides Agent-to-Agent Negotiations Studies agent-to-agent negotiations over money, finding that the receiving agent's characteristics primarily dictate the final transfer amounts. Ranked #18Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes multi-agent interactions and negotiation behavior in resource-exchange games. | |
| SpecGuardBench: Can Coding Agents Construct Reliable Validation Harnesses from Natural Language Specifications? This paper introduces a benchmark to test if coding agents can build reliable validation test harnesses from natural language specifications. Ranked #19New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates the capability of autonomous coding agents to construct validation harnesses. | |
| ANCHOR: Assessing Naturalistic Constraint Hierarchies and Ordering in Repository-Grounded Agentic Coding This paper introduces a repository-grounded benchmark to evaluate how well coding agents follow engineering constraints and developer workflows. Ranked #20New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates repository-grounded agent workflows and multi-step constraint following. | |
| Reward Hacking as a Transmissible Strategy in Multi-Agent Coding Systems Demonstrates that reward-hacking strategies can propagate across multiple agents through shared memory and code in multi-agent coding systems. Ranked #21Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Investigates reward hacking propagation across coordinated agents in multi-agent coding systems. | |
| From Reactive Containment to Proactive Assurance: Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Agent Security Incidents Analyzes security incidents from frontier AI agent evaluations and proposes a framework for proactive boundary assurance. Ranked #22New way to see a problemPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Examines security boundaries and infrastructure breaches caused by autonomous cybersecurity agents. | |
| One Word Opens the Gate: The Option-Channel Attack on Typed Decision Models as Agent Guardrails Evaluates typed decision models used as agent guardrails, uncovering vulnerabilities and asymmetric error rates in allow-or-block actions. Ranked #23Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Directly assesses typed decision models serving as guardrails in multi-step agent tool-calling systems. | |
| Safe Actions Alone Do Not Ensure Safe Agents: Identifying Unfulfilled Obligations with Guard Models Introduces a benchmark evaluating guard models on identifying unfulfilled safety obligations in language model agent trajectories alongside forbidden actions. Ranked #24New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | On-topic Analyzes safety mechanisms and guard models specifically for LLM-based autonomous agents. | |
| Lumen-bench: Cross-Lingual Safety Gaps and the Say-Do Problem in Tool-Calling Large Language Models The paper introduces a multilingual benchmark evaluating safety and discrepancies between verbal refusals and tool actions in tool-calling language models. Ranked #25New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Studies ethical violations and refusal behavior when LLMs execute actions using external tools. | |
| Trace Evolution Bench: Measuring Whether Agents Improve from Their Own Environment Traces This paper introduces a benchmark to measure whether autonomous coding agents truly improve their policies from interaction traces. Ranked #26Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Examines self-evolving autonomous agents learning from execution traces in task environments. | |
| TurnCost: Turns, Not Observations: Cache-Aware Loop Engineering for Coding Agents Analyzes coding-agent trajectories to model execution costs under prompt caching, showing turn count matters far more than observation token length. Ranked #27Surprising resultPeer-reviewed8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes iterative tool-use loops, context management, and costs in coding agents. | |
| Diviner: Agentic RCA with Human-Governed Adaptation for Large-Scale Infrastructure Presents an agentic system with human-governed adaptation to automate root-cause analysis across complex, large-scale infrastructure environments. Ranked #28New way to see a problemPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Deploys multi-agent systems for root-cause analysis in large infrastructure using tools. | |
| Approve What, Exactly? Effect Binding and Trusted Rendering for Agent Step-Up Authorization Analyzes authorization security flaws in agent human-in-the-loop approval mechanisms and proposes a tamper-resistant approval gateway. Ranked #29Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Addresses tool execution, step-up authorization, and action approval protocols in agentic systems. | |
| Knowing the User Is Not Knowing What We Established: Grounding Awareness in Personal Agents The authors introduce a benchmark to evaluate whether personal agents can distinguish accepted user arrangements from unacknowledged proposals. Ranked #30Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates and tracks whether personal conversational agents properly ground user authorization before taking actions. | |
| Can Agents Forget When Asked? A Benchmark for Memory Unlearning in LLM Agents The authors introduce Bemula, a benchmark designed to evaluate how accurately language model agents erase specific user memories upon request. Ranked #31New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates long-term memory management and unlearning capabilities in LLM agents. | |
| Compositional RL: Evaluating and Training LLMs for Collaborative Reasoning The paper studies how much models contribute to multi-model teams, showing individual test scores do not correlate well with collaborative performance. Ranked #32Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates and trains LLMs inside multi-model collaborative agent systems. | |
| Why Agentic Workflows Fail: A Taxonomy Derived from Literature and Empirical Data The paper presents a taxonomy that locates agent workflow failures across specific workflow stages and agent functional capabilities. Ranked #33New way to see a problemPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes how agentic workflows combining LLMs with tools and planning fail. | |
| Executable Prefix Values for Locating Agent Failures The paper evaluates judge labels on agent steps by restarting failed trajectories from intermediate states to identify true failure points. Ranked #34Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Develops executable prefix values to locate step-level failures in autonomous agents. | |
| Many Steps into One: Reasoning Contraction and the Limits of Safe Memory Reuse for LLM Agents The paper analyzes the failure modes of agent memory reuse and evaluates certified memory update strategies when facts change. Ranked #35Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Investigates safe memory reuse, reasoning contraction, and failure modes in LLM agents. | |
| CWE-bench: Refocusing Agentic Security from Exploitation to Defense The paper presents CWE-bench, a benchmark of 120 held-out software tasks to evaluate AI agents on finding and repairing security vulnerabilities. Ranked #36New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates autonomous cybersecurity agents on multi-step repository audit-and-repair tasks. | |
| When LLM Agents See a Conflict but Still Proceed: Cross-Domain Dependencies in Network Slicing Shows that language agents often ignore identified cross-domain dependencies, causing unintended disruptive actions in network management. Ranked #37Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates autonomous LLM agents handling dependencies in multi-step network management. | |
| Same Operation, Different Permission: Evaluating Whether Guardrails Honor Authorization The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate whether language-model guardrails properly distinguish authorized from unauthorized actions across identical operations. Ranked #38New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates authorization guardrails placed on language-model agents taking real-world actions. | |
| AuthGateBench: Benchmarking LLMs as Authorization Gate Introduces a policy-guided benchmark evaluating language models acting as authorization gates for tool-using coding agents. Ranked #39New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Focuses on authorization gating and safety mechanisms for autonomous coding agents. | |
| When Agent Evaluation Becomes Unreliable: An Empirical Study of Oracle Failures and Configuration-Dependent Measurement in an LLM Agent Benchmark The paper audits agent evaluation benchmarks for software defects, showing that broken reward functions and configuration shifts substantially distort reported success rates. Ranked #40New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Audits evaluation harnesses and oracles specifically used for LLM agent benchmarks. | |
| When Agents Talk, Secrets Travel: Topology-Driven Leakage and Recipient-Conditioned Sanitization in Multi-Agent LLM Systems The paper investigates privacy leakage caused by multi-agent network topologies and proposes an execution sanitizer conditioned on recipient identity. Ranked #41Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Examines communication topologies and information leakage in multi-agent LLM systems. | |
| TRAP: Tool-result Replay Attack for Probing Misbinding in LLM Agents Presents a benchmark and attack method to evaluate failures caused by tool results misbinding to incorrect execution contexts in LLM agents. Ranked #42Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes failure modes in LLM agents when handling external tool execution results. | |
| agent-risk: Risk Assessment for Changes to AI Agents Provides a framework for assessing risks of proposed changes to deployed AI agents by selectively replaying execution logs and saved states. Ranked #43New way to see a problemPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes risk assessment and safety gating for deployed autonomous AI agents. | |
| Uncovering Robustness Weaknesses in LLM Agents via Persona Evolution with Task-Integrity Constraints This paper introduces TIPER, a method that evolves challenging user personas to test language model agent robustness without invalidating underlying tasks. Ranked #44New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates and exposes robustness weaknesses in interactive LLM agents using persona evolution. | |
| MedHarnessBench: A Unified Benchmark for Healthcare Agent Evaluation The paper presents an evaluation benchmark assessing seven clinical process dimensions for healthcare agents across longitudinal workflows. Ranked #45New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies multi-step healthcare agents executing longitudinal clinical workflows and tool interactions. | |
| Agent-Canary-Mas: End-to-End Evaluation of Protocol Risk in Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems The paper introduces an evaluation framework measuring how communication protocol exploits propagate into task failures across multi-agent systems. Ranked #46New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates protocol risk and exploitability across long-horizon multi-agent systems. | |
| EvolvAttack: Backdooring self Evolving VLM Agents The paper introduces EvolvAttack, demonstrating a backdoor mechanism that activates only after a vision-language agent evolves its memory over time. Ranked #47Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Investigates vulnerabilities emerging in self-evolving vision-language agents that adapt their memory. | |
| FDE-Bench: Evaluating End-to-End Delivery from Underspecified Real-World Business Requests The paper introduces a benchmark based on enterprise projects to evaluate agent performance on clarifying underspecified requirements and iterative optimization. Ranked #48New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates agents on interactive clarification and multi-step iterative optimization tasks. | |
| SWE-Stream: Scaling Executable Training Data for SWE Agents via Progressive Construction and Elastic Streaming The paper introduces a framework that progressively constructs and streams executable training tasks from code repositories for software engineering agents. Ranked #49New way to see a problemPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Scales executable training trajectories for software engineering LLM agents. | |
| P2Patch: Exploit-Guided Vulnerability Repair The paper presents an adversarial framework where an exploitation agent iteratively attacks and refines automated patches generated by a repair agent. Ranked #50Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Focuses on autonomous agents using multi-step reasoning and tool use for software vulnerability repair. | |
| From Training to Escalation: Forensic Analysis and Local Recreation of RL/RLHF-Induced Privilege Escalation in AI Agents (CVE-2026-65616) Recreates and analyzes infrastructure misconfigurations that enabled privilege escalation and repository bypass during autonomous AI agent evaluations. Ranked #51Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Analyzes containment failure and privilege escalation in autonomous AI agents. | |
| What Coding Agents Leave Unsaid: Measuring Task-State Gaps Between Execution and Reports The paper measures the information gap between coding agents' internal execution logs and their user-facing progress reports. Ranked #52Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Measures task-state reporting gaps in autonomous software coding agents. | |
| A Strong Harness Narrows the Model Gap: A Comparative Evaluation for Legislative Document-to-XML Conversion The paper evaluates harnesses for legislative document conversion, showing structured multi-agent pipelines narrow performance gaps between models. Ranked #53Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Compares single-agent versus decomposed multi-agent orchestration harnesses. | |
| Structure Before Intelligence: Gating What Agentic Scientific Workflows Release The paper proposes an execution harness that validates intermediate results before allowing scientific agent workflows to release outputs. Ranked #54Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Examines reliable execution and failure gating in agentic scientific workflows. | |
| AgentCIScope: Grounded Contextual Integrity Evaluation for LLM Agents The paper introduces an executable evaluation platform and benchmark to measure contextual integrity and privacy compliance in multi-step language model agents. Ranked #55New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Evaluates LLM agents executing multi-step tasks across application environments via tool calls. | |
| Beyond Downstream QA: Rethinking How We Evaluate Agent Memory The paper presents a benchmark that isolates agent memory evolution from downstream retrieval and generation failures. Ranked #56Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates how agent memory systems track and evolve state across multi-step interactions. | |
| Believed but Not Said: Measuring Hidden Belief Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Discussions The paper demonstrates that a single adversarial agent can cause benign models in multi-agent discussions to quietly adopt false beliefs. Ranked #57Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Examines failure modes and consensus dynamics in multi-agent LLM discussion systems. | |
| The Self-Improvement Problem The paper formalizes the theoretical limits of automated gates evaluating self-improvement updates in autonomous agent code. Ranked #58New way to see a problemPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes theoretical limits of autonomous agent self-improvement and tool updates. | |
| Screwtape: Adversarial Transcript Editing for Monitor Red-Teaming The paper introduces an adversarial editing pipeline that alters agent execution transcripts to red-team action-monitoring safety systems. Ranked #59Surprising resultPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Focuses on generating attacks that alter agent transcripts to evade runtime monitoring. | |
| INFUSE: A Unified Surface Benchmark for Indirect Prompt Injection in Agentic Systems The paper introduces an end-to-end benchmark to evaluate indirect prompt injection risks across long-horizon agent workflows. Ranked #60New testPreprint8/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates vulnerabilities and tool-use lifecycle execution in long-horizon autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Player-1: Learning to Play from Synthetic Experience Develops a post-training framework that trains computer-use agents for video games using synthetic interactive experiences and an expanded action space. Ranked #61New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Develops computer-use agents that interact with complex digital game environments. | |
| FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery The authors introduce FDE-Gym, a benchmark of 95 customer delivery tasks evaluating AI agents on ambiguous requirements and live software environments. Ranked #62New testPreprint7/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates AI agents operating in complex environments to deliver end-to-end customer projects. | |
| Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively The paper introduces Agent-Reflex, a training framework designed to teach language agents how to reflect and recover from noisy environment feedback. Ranked #63New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Trains language agents to handle noisy tool feedback and reflect on failures. |
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