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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 20, 2026Published at 2:12 AM EDT · New York
Specialized agent guards block up to nine in ten safe actions when tool calls arrive as shell commands, ToolRosetta finds
Frontier and strong open-weight models used as guards gave the same verdicts whether an action appeared as JSON, Python or shell, while four of five purpose-built agent guards did not.
Step-level guards for tool-using agents are usually evaluated on clean JSON tool calls. Deployed coding agents, however, act through executebash and executecode tools whose payloads are plain strings. ToolRosetta, a new paper also listed fo…
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