4 papers
AgentPolicyForge: From Executable Environments to Policy Benchmarks and Adaptive Guards
Chao Shang, Wanyu Du, Yi Zhang +1
Customized agent deployments define policies over tools, resources, and execution conditions. Providing these policies in the task agent's prompt does not reliably prevent violatio…
Relational Priors as Convergence Pressure in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
Ming Shen, Chao Shang, Sadat Shahriar +4
Large language model-based multi-agent systems (LLM-MAS) are designed through roles, debate protocols, and aggregation rules. These choices create implicit expectations of trust, s…
Peacemaker or Troublemaker: How Sycophancy Shapes Multi-Agent Debate
Binwei Yao, Chao Shang, Wanyu Du +6
Large language models (LLMs) often display sycophancy, a tendency toward excessive agreeability. This behavior poses significant challenges for multi-agent debating systems (MADS)…
STAC: When Innocent Tools Form Dangerous Chains for LLM Agents
Jing-Jing Li, Jianfeng He, Chao Shang +6
As LLMs advance into autonomous agents with tool-use capabilities, they introduce security challenges that extend beyond traditional content-based LLM safety concerns. This paper i…