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Dynamic capability scoping for enterprise AI agents: synthetic dataset and three-source permission architecture
A new arXiv preprint proposes a dynamic least-privilege architecture for enterprise AI agents, replacing static credential sets with a three-source system combining role-based ceilings, task-context classifiers, and policy-derived combination prohibitions. The authors release a synthetic dataset of 600 enterprise task prompts labeled with minimum required permissions across a 15-permission taxonomy, validated with high inter-rater agreement (Cohen's κ = 0.967 post-review). The architecture supports both enforced and observe-only deployment modes, with the latter generating behavioral signals for misalignment research. The work addresses the over-privilege problem in agentic deployments, where persistent broad credentials expand attack surface regardless of model reasoning quality.
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Distributionally robust optimization framework for probabilistic runtime verification of AI agents
A new arXiv preprint introduces a sound and efficient framework for verifying probabilistic security policies for AI agents operating in complex digital environments, addressing limitations of prior Datalog-based approaches that assumed deterministic policies or predicate independence. The method uses distributionally robust optimization to compute sound upper bounds on policy violation probability without requiring independence assumptions between predicates. Evaluated on benchmarks for terminal and tool-calling agents, the approach outperforms prior art on the security-utility trade-off.
SovereignPA-Bench: A benchmark for evaluating user sovereignty in personal AI agents
Researchers introduce SovereignPA-Bench, an executable benchmark designed to evaluate personal AI agents on dimensions beyond task completion, including privacy preservation, consent compliance, evidence grounding, manipulation resistance, and user burden. The benchmark tests 120 sovereignty stress scenarios across 4 model families and 8 policy baselines, generating 3,840 frozen-prompt trajectories with a blinded human audit component. Results show that full-sovereign scaffolding outperforms all baselines on sovereignty metrics while reducing privacy leakage and consent violations. The work argues that personal-agent evaluation must shift from task success toward consent-aware, evidence-grounded action.
APPA: Agentic Permissions Policy Algebra for taint confinement in LLM agents
Researchers introduce APPA (Agentic Permissions Policy Algebra), an Information Flow Control framework designed to prevent prompt injection and data exfiltration in autonomous LLM agents processing mixed-confidentiality data. The key innovation is engine-managed context branching: rather than permanently tainting an agent's context when it reads unvetted data, APPA spawns isolated child trajectories that absorb label descent locally, allowing a sanitizer to return a bounded derivative to the clean parent context. Evaluated on a multi-turn tool-chaining benchmark across four models, APPA reduces exfiltration attack success from 31–50% down to 0–7% while recovering substantial utility lost by naive taint tracking. The framework is grounded in a formal two-monoid model with proofs of parent label preservation and merge confinement.
TrustX Agent Risk Classification Framework (ARC) for enterprise agentic AI governance
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Framework for penetration testing AI-enabled systems via behavioral objective violation
A new arXiv preprint proposes reframing penetration testing for AI-enabled systems beyond traditional infrastructure compromise to include adversarial behavioral influence. The authors define 'AI-enabled penetration' as inducing AI-governed behavior that violates operational objectives, covering attack surfaces such as prompt injection, data poisoning, retrieval poisoning, tool misuse, and agentic misalignment. A structured testing workflow and a running example using an AI security operations center assistant illustrate the framework. The work addresses a gap in security evaluation methodology as agentic AI systems become more widely deployed.
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