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Morning Edition · Monday, August 24, 2026Published at 3:20 AM EDT · New York
New Papers Target the Weakest Point in Agent Deployments: Cross-Domain Tool Abuse in the Model Context Protocol
One arXiv submission proposes a control layer called AEGIS for resource abuse across trust domains, a second argues that end-to-end success rates hide where long-horizon security agents actually fail.
Two submissions posted to arXiv on 24 August address the same structural weakness using two different approaches. AEGIS targets cross-domain resource abuse in the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open JSON-RPC standard that lets large lang…
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