2 papers
cs.SE2026
Where Should a Stuck Agent Spend Its Next Tokens? Causal Attribution of Inference-Time Resources
Saiyue Lyu, Jerrold Huang, Yunbei Zhang +4
Inference-time scaling is often treated as a token-budget problem, but a failed coding agent can seek qualitatively different resources: computation, information, or feedback. We i…
cs.CR2026
SkillScreen: High-Recall Screening of Malicious Agent Skills with Decision Models
Jerrold Huang, Junwei Quan, Saiyue Lyu +2
Agent skills turn natural-language instructions into actions, creating a security challenge: legitimate automation and malicious behaviour can look deceptively similar. A practical…