33 papers
AutoSpec: Safety Rule Evolution for LLM Agents via Inductive Logic Programming
Pingchuan Ma, Zhaoyu Wang, Zimo Ji +5
Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly automate complex tasks by integrating language models with external tools and environments. However, their autonomy poses significant…
Cloak and Detonate: Scanner Evasion and Dynamic Detection of Agent Skill Malware
Zimo Ji, Congying Xu, Zongjie Li +4
LLM coding agents increasingly rely on third-party agent skills from public marketplaces, which execute with the agent's privileges and create a software supply-chain attack surfac…
Coding Agents Are Guessing: Measuring Action-Boundary Violations in Underspecified DevOps Instructions
Zimo Ji, Zekai Zhang, Congying Xu +4
LLM coding agents are increasingly deployed to act autonomously on real production infrastructure. They execute shell commands, modify repositories, and call operational APIs. Howe…
Red-Teaming Coding Agents from a Tool-Invocation Perspective: An Empirical Security Assessment
Yuchong Xie, Mingyu Luo, Zesen Liu +7
Coding agents powered by large language models are becoming central modules of modern IDEs, helping users perform complex tasks by invoking tools. While powerful, tool invocation o…
SkillReducer: Optimizing LLM Agent Skills for Token Efficiency
Yudong Gao, Zongjie Li, Yuanyuan Yuan +3
LLM-based coding agents rely on \emph{skills}, pre-packaged instruction sets that extend agent capabilities, yet every token of skill content injected into the context window incur…
Unlocking Proactivity in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Azure Zhang, Ning Gao, Yuqin Dai +7
Proactive task-oriented dialogue (TOD), such as outbound sales, demands a persuasive agent that actively probes the user's concerns and steers the conversation toward acceptance wi…