Jailbreak Context Lingers: Divergent Safety Routing and Its Cross-Task Predictability in Tool Agents
As large language models increasingly operate as tool-using agents, post-jailbreak safety feedback is often assumed to serve as a reliable safeguard; however, how lingering jailbreak context shapes subsequent agent behavior remains largely unexplored. To systematically examine this dynamic, we introduce a paired continuation framework across 192 parent tasks spanning 42 domains, evaluating 12,148 analyzed continuation pairs (curated from a 12,288-pair initially design) across eight diverse agents. We find that identical safety feedback induces sharply model-dependent behavioral routing rather than uniform protection: redirecting unsafe trajectories toward legitimate completion (\emph{resc...
| Authors | Xi Wang, Songlei Jian, Yiming Zhang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 28 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 September 2026 |
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