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cs.CR2026

The Defense Trilemma: Why Prompt Injection Defense Wrappers Fail?

Manish Bhatt, Sarthak Munshi, Vineeth Sai Narajala +6

We prove that no continuous, utility-preserving wrapper defense-a function that preprocesses inputs before the model sees them-can make all outputs strictly safe for a…

cs.CR2026

LAAF: Logic-layer Automated Attack Framework A Systematic Red-Teaming Methodology for LPCI Vulnerabilities in Agentic Large Language Model Systems

Hammad Atta, Ken Huang, Kyriakos Rock Lambros +11

Agentic LLM systems equipped with persistent memory, RAG pipelines, and external tool connectors face a class of attacks - Logic-layer Prompt Control Injection (LPCI) - for which n…

cs.CR2026

Large Empirical Case Study: Go-Explore adapted for AI Red Team Testing

Manish Bhatt, Adrian Wood, Idan Habler +1

Production LLM agents with tool-using capabilities require security testing despite their safety training. We adapt Go-Explore to evaluate GPT-4o-mini across 28 experimental runs s…

cs.CR2025

MAIF: Enforcing AI Trust and Provenance with an Artifact-Centric Agentic Paradigm

Vineeth Sai Narajala, Manish Bhatt, Idan Habler +2

The AI trustworthiness crisis threatens to derail the artificial intelligence revolution, with regulatory barriers, security vulnerabilities, and accountability gaps preventing dep…

cs.CR2025

Logic layer Prompt Control Injection (LPCI): A Novel Security Vulnerability Class in Agentic Systems

Hammad Atta, Ken Huang, Manish Bhatt +3

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into enterprise systems has introduced a new class of covert security vulnerabilities, particularly within logic execution layers an…

cs.CR2025

Bhatt Conjectures: On Necessary-But-Not-Sufficient Benchmark Tautology for Human Like Reasoning

Manish Bhatt

The Bhatt Conjectures framework introduces rigorous, hierarchical benchmarks for evaluating AI reasoning and understanding, moving beyond pattern matching to assess representation…