most citedArchitecting Secure AI Agents: Perspectives on System-Level Defenses Against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks

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cs.CR2026

AutoRedClaw: Automated Red-Teaming for Claw-Style Agents

Hao Li, Tongyan Hu, Weidi Luo +8

Agent systems are shifting from task-scoped tool-use agents to persistent, personalized assistants such as OpenClaw. These claw-style agents maintain configuration files (e.g., AGE…

cs.LG2026

Self-Reflection Fine-Tuning: Enhancing Agent Security against Prompt Injection Attacks from Failure Experience

Zixuan Wang, Hao Li, Fengyu Gao +5

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in tool-augmented environments, but their reliance on external inputs makes them highly vulnerable to prompt injection a…

cs.CR2026

ROPE: Routed Origin Policy Enforcement against Indirect Prompt Injection

Xinhang Ma, Chaowei Xiao, William Yeoh +2

Indirect prompt injection (IPI) plants instructions in the content a tool-using LLM agent reads, steering the agent into harmful tool calls. The strongest defenses are system-level…

cs.AI2026

Agent MechSuits: Mechanistic Subspace Safety Steering for Multi-Turn CLI Agents

Weidi Luo, Qiming Zhang, Yihao Quan +5

Command-Line Interface (CLI) agents based on large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable autonomous capabilities, but they also introduce significant safety and misuse risk…

cs.CR2026

AutoDojo: A Generative Benchmark for Evaluating Prompt Injection Defenses in LLM Agents

Xinhang Ma, Taoran Li, Chaowei Xiao +3

Indirect prompt injection (IPI) is a major security threat to LLM-powered agents. Thus, a growing body of work has proposed a variety of defensive approaches against IPI which can…

cs.AI2026

FORTIS: Benchmarking Over-Privilege in Agent Skills

Shawn Li, Chenxiao Yu, Han Wang +8

Large language model agents increasingly operate through an intermediate skill layer that mediates between user intent and concrete task execution. This layer is widely treated as…

cs.CR2026

Runtime Skill Audit: Targeted Runtime Probing for Agent Skill Security

Tu Lan, Chaowei Xiao

Agent skills let LLM agents reuse instructions, resources, tools, and workflows, but they also create a new place for malicious behavior to hide. A skill may look benign in its doc…

cs.AI2026

ShieldNet: Network-Level Guardrails against Emerging Supply-Chain Injections in Agentic Systems

Zhuowen Yuan, Zhaorun Chen, Zhen Xiang +5

Existing research on LLM agent security mainly focuses on prompt injection and unsafe input/output behaviors. However, as agents increasingly rely on third-party tools and MCP serv…

cs.CR2026

Cooking Up Risks: Benchmarking and Reducing Food Safety Risks in Large Language Models

Weidi Luo, Xiaofei Wen, Tenghao Huang +6

Food safety directly affects human health in daily life, as unsafe preparation or storage can lead to contamination and foodborne illness. PwC's 2025 consumer survey reports that 4…

cs.CR2026★ 1 cited

Architecting Secure AI Agents: Perspectives on System-Level Defenses Against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks

Chong Xiang, Drew Zagieboylo, Shaona Ghosh +5

AI agents, predominantly powered by large language models (LLMs), are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection, in which malicious instructions embedded in untrusted data can trigge…

cs.CR2026

AgentSys: Secure and Dynamic LLM Agents Through Explicit Hierarchical Memory Management

Ruoyao Wen, Hao Li, Chaowei Xiao +1

Indirect prompt injection threatens LLM agents by embedding malicious instructions in external content, enabling unauthorized actions and data theft. LLM agents maintain working me…

cs.CR2026

AgentDyn: Are Your Agent Security Defenses Deployable in Real-World Dynamic Environments?

Hao Li, Ruoyao Wen, Shanghao Shi +3

AI agents that autonomously interact with external tools and environments have shown great promise across real-world applications. However, their reliance on external data exposes…

cs.CR2026

ReasAlign: Reasoning Enhanced Safety Alignment against Prompt Injection Attack

Hao Li, Yankai Yang, G. Edward Suh +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled the development of powerful agentic systems capable of automating complex workflows across various fields. However, these systems are high…

cs.CR2026

Defenses Against Prompt Attacks Learn Surface Heuristics

Shawn Li, Chenxiao Yu, Zhiyu Ni +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in security-sensitive applications, where they must follow system- or developer-specified instructions that define the intend…