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NAAMSE: Framework for Evolutionary Security Evaluation of Agents

Artificial Intelligence 2026-03-10 v2 Multiagent Systems

Abstract

AI agents are increasingly deployed in production, yet their security evaluations remain bottlenecked by manual red-teaming or static benchmarks that fail to model adaptive, multi-turn adversaries. We propose NAAMSE, an evolutionary framework that reframes agent security evaluation as a feedback-driven optimization problem. Our system employs a single autonomous agent that orchestrates a lifecycle of genetic prompt mutation, hierarchical corpus exploration, and asymmetric behavioral scoring. By using model responses as a fitness signal, the framework iteratively compounds effective attack strategies while simultaneously ensuring "benign-use correctness", preventing the degenerate security of blanket refusal. Our experiments across a diverse suite of state-of-the-art large language models demonstrate that evolutionary mutation systematically amplifies vulnerabilities missed by one-shot methods, with controlled ablations revealing that the synergy between exploration and targeted mutation uncovers high-severity failure modes. We show that this adaptive approach provides a more realistic and scalable assessment of agent robustness in the face of evolving threats. The code for NAAMSE is open source and available at https://github.com/HASHIRU-AI/NAAMSE.

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@article{arxiv.2602.07391,
  title  = {NAAMSE: Framework for Evolutionary Security Evaluation of Agents},
  author = {Kunal Pai and Parth Shah and Harshil Patel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07391},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Published at ICLR 2026 Workshop on Agents in the Wild

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