most citedAgent Skills Enable a New Class of Realistic and Trivially Simple Prompt Injections

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cs.CR2026

LLM Agents Can Easily Tamper With Their Own Traces

Jeremy Qin, David Schmotz, Derck Prinzhorn +3

Asynchronous monitoring, incident investigations, and compliance audits primarily rely on agent traces to reconstruct what happened. These analyses assume that LLM agents cannot ta…

cs.CR2026

Instrumental Monitor Evasion Emerges Under Ordinary Task Pressure

David Schmotz, Derck Prinzhorn, Luca Beurer-Kellner +3

A central concern in AI safety is that agents may treat oversight as an obstacle when it conflicts with completing their goals. We study instrumental evasion, the propensity of LLM…

cs.CR2026

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

Alexander Panfilov, David Schmotz, Ilia Shumailov +5

Leading large language model providers now conceal their models' step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and limit information leakage. Rather…

cs.AI2026

ResearchArena: Evaluating Sabotage and Monitoring in Automated AI R&D

Lena Libon, Ben Rank, Jehyeok Yeon +5

As AI agents begin to automate AI R&D, we need ways to assess whether their outputs are safe to deploy, even when the agents themselves may be untrusted. AI control offers one such…

cs.CR2026

Skill-Inject: Measuring Agent Vulnerability to Skill File Attacks

David Schmotz, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Sahar Abdelnabi +1

LLM agents are evolving rapidly, powered by code execution, tools, and the recently introduced agent skills feature. Skills allow users to extend LLM applications with specialized…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Agent Skills Enable a New Class of Realistic and Trivially Simple Prompt Injections

David Schmotz, Sahar Abdelnabi, Maksym Andriushchenko

Enabling continual learning in LLMs remains a key unresolved research challenge. In a recent announcement, a frontier LLM company made a step towards this by introducing Agent Skil…