Agent Security Needs Redefinition through a Holistic Framework
Agent security is widely treated as a question about action content. Defenses ask whether an instruction looks malicious. Benchmarks ask whether an agent performs a harmful sounding action. \textbf{We argue that agent security is fundamentally a contextual problem, and that the current content based framing systematically misdefines it.} A command to ``delete user data'' might be a routine administrative request or a prompt injection attacking production systems, and the content alone cannot distinguish the two. Authorization context can. Across every injection task in AgentDojo and WASP, the same action is one an authenticated user would plausibly request in a routine workflow, which mak...
| Authors | Vincent Siu, Jingxuan He, Kyle Montgomery et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CR |
| Published | 24 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 24 July 2026 |
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