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When Experience Becomes Instruction: Trajectory Poisoning in Self-Evolving Agent Skill Systems
Jialuo Chen, Lingqi Jiang, Xinhao Deng +7
Self-evolving skill (SES) systems distill agent trajectories into persistent skills, allowing untrusted experience to become trusted instruction. We introduce PoisonedEvolution, a…
VIGIL: Runtime Enforcement of Behavioral Specifications in AI Agent Skills
Ying Li, Yanju Chen, Hongbo Wen +5
Agentic systems increasingly act through third-party skills, allowing model-generated decisions to affect files, communication channels, and cyber-physical devices. These skills of…
Safety in Self-Evolving LLM Agent Systems: Threats, Amplification, and Case Studies
Ruixiao Lin, Xinhao Deng, Qingming Li +12
Self-evolving LLM agent systems, which autonomously update their model parameters, memory, tools, and architectures, introduce a qualitatively new threat landscape in which adversa…
BraveGuard: From Open-World Threats to Safer Computer-Use Agents
Yunhao Feng, Xiaohu Du, Xinhao Deng +13
Computer-use agents extend language models from text generation to sustained interaction with files, terminals, browsers, and external tools. This shift creates safety risks that a…
SkillTrojan: Backdoor Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems
Yunhao Feng, Yifan Ding, Yingshui Tan +6
Skill-based agent systems tackle complex tasks by composing reusable skills, improving modularity and scalability while introducing a largely unexamined security attack surface. We…
ASEval: Automated Trajectory-Level Security Testing for Autonomous Agents
Jianan Ma, Xiaohu Du, Ruixiao Lin +9
As autonomous agents (e.g., OpenClaw) increasingly operate with deep system-level privileges to execute complex tasks, they introduce severe, unmitigated security risks. Existing L…