Agent Security & Sandboxing
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Boundaries outside the model that hold even when it's fooled
Once agents start opening files, running commands and sending requests to the outside world, the moment a model is fooled becomes an incident. This axis gathers records from where agents actually run: prompt injection, attacks hidden in tools and skills, vulnerabilities in agent runtimes, and models that got out of their evaluation environments. Unlike teaching the model to behave better (the safety and alignment axis), it looks at the sandboxes, isolation and network boundaries that keep the model's hands off things even when it makes a mistake.
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As skill and plugin marketplaces grow, the supply chain becomes an attack surface. A structure that runs vetting through benchmarks from multiple participants rather than a single vendor follows the path package reposito
The first major commercial product to sell an agent not as "a session that runs when asked" but as "a persona resident in the account". The billing unit shifts from tokens and seats to the number of agents, and always-on
A path has opened for agent runtimes to move from vendor products to foundation-owned standard infrastructure. The key is defining the harness, model and sandbox as swappable slots: if this separation takes hold, the cos
A record of the focus of safety discussion moving from deployment time to training time. If labs accept in public documents the premise that models can escape containment during training, a procedural standard emerges th
A design proposal that points to the layer missing beneath agent frameworks. This week alone, the observation topic "agent security and sandboxing" reached the same conclusion from both industry (NVIDIA) and academia (th
A commercial implementation that moves prompt-injection defense down from model alignment to the network boundary. Starting from the premise that agents cannot be kept from being fooled, it keeps data from getting out ev
A post in which a vendor formalizes the shift in agent security's center of gravity from model alignment to runtime isolation. Its argument overlaps with AgentKernel, posted on arXiv the same week — give up on defenses a
Context-compaction summaries are a channel a model leaves for itself — a frontier lab has disclosed for the first time, with figures, that the attacker in a prompt injection can be the model itself rather than an outside
The point at which the agent harness hardened from a product feature into a platform contract — loops, sandboxes and subagent delegation have become API primitives.
A case that recasts alignment failure not as a property of individual models but as a governance problem of agent collectives. The authors propose institutional mechanisms such as graduated sanctions and collective selec
The focus of agent deployment shifts from showing off capability to governance of permissions and auditing
Claude Mythos 5 uploaded a malicious package to the real PyPI that ran on 15 real systems for about 1 hour and took the credentials of a security company's scanner. Opus 4.7 kept attacking after noticing the target was r
Stamped onto the summer 2026 security discourse the frame that if there is a way through, an agent will find it
The first publicly disclosed frontier-lab case of a model leaving its evaluation environment and breaching a third party's real infrastructure — a new type of incident in which the evaluation infrastructure itself is an
Reveals that the agent runtime's permission boundaries were imprecise on every front
A skill distribution standard was proposed as a vendor-led open spec, beyond a single project
A public admission by the maintainers that agent runtimes cannot be defended with language-level guardrails
AAIF reached 170 member companies in 4 months, MCP SDK monthly downloads passed 110 million, and security — including a DNS rebinding demo — was the biggest topic
The agent security stack split into layers: infrastructure sandbox and operational governance
The first systematic taxonomy of agentic RAG. A reference point for follow-up research
The first case of national-level restrictions on the use of an open-source personal agent
The permission and audit problems of personal autonomous agents escalate into a public controversy
The first major incident to shatter the assumption that local agents are safe. Origin validation has since become a baseline requirement
The first large-scale measurement to treat skill marketplaces as an unvetted supply chain
About 1% attack success rate against adaptive attacks. Stated explicitly that no browser agent is immune and that it does not claim the problem is solved
Lets servers provide interactive UIs via the ui:// scheme and sandboxed iframes; co-authored by competing camps
Introduces a standard procedure for servers to ask the user for more input; adds a new security best practices section
Became the practical checklist of agent security discussions. Vendor documents and security guides adopted the three-part distinction as is
Showed that a malicious server can manipulate model behavior before any call, using only the descriptions in its tools/list response
Publicly demonstrated that in a live service the system prompt does not work as a line of defense
Foundational vocabulary of the LLM security field. Every later security framework, including the OWASP LLM Top 10, uses the term