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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 1, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
A Governed Execution Architecture Cuts Agent Attack Success From 98.3% to 7.7%
Interposing a planner, policy gate, executor and auditor between an agent and the operating system costs utility, and the paper measures how much.
Most agent defenses filter inputs. A preprint on separation of duties for privileged LLM agents argues the more consequential gap is on the other side, between a candidate action and its privileged side effects, because an agent that errs h…
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The Agent Skill Supply Chain Becomes an Attack Surface
As agents load third-party skills, tools and MCP servers at runtime, the gap between what a skill advertises and what it actually does becomes a recurring security failure mode, driving registries, attestation and zero-trust verification into the agent stack the way package signing came to software repositories.
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