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Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly issue API calls that mutate real systems, yet many current architectures pass stochastic model outputs directly to execution layers. We argue that this coupling creates a safety risk because…

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Autonomous large language model (LLM) agents such as OpenClaw are pushing agentic commerce from human-supervised assistance toward machine actors that can negotiate, purchase services, manage digital assets, and execute transactions across…

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Large language model (LLM) based agents are increasingly used to tackle software engineering tasks that require multi-step reasoning and code modification, demonstrating promising yet limited performance. However, most existing LLM agents…

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Personal AI agents like OpenClaw run with elevated privileges on users' local machines, where a single successful prompt injection can leak credentials, redirect financial transactions, or destroy files. This threat goes well beyond…

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Fault-tolerance is critically important in highly-distributed modern cloud applications. Solutions such as Temporal, Azure Durable Functions, and Beldi hide fault-tolerance complexity from developers by persisting execution state and…

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Software vulnerabilities are a challenge in cybersecurity. Manual security patches are often difficult and slow to be deployed, while new vulnerabilities are created. Binary code vulnerability detection is less studied and more complex…

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The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous, tool-calling agents has fundamentally altered the cybersecurity landscape. Frameworks like OpenClaw grant AI systems operating-system-level permissions and the autonomy to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zonghao Ying , Xiao Yang , Siyang Wu , Yumeng Song , Yang Qu , Hainan Li , Tianlin Li , Jiakai Wang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu

OpenClaw, the most widely deployed personal AI agent in early 2026, operates with full local system access and integrates with sensitive services such as Gmail, Stripe, and the filesystem. While these broad privileges enable high levels of…

Self-hosted computer-use agents (SHCUAs), such as OpenClaw, combine natural-language interaction with direct access to host-side resources, including browsers, files, scripts, system commands, and external communication channels. While…

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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies translate language and visual inputs into robot actions, where their hidden representations directly shape closed-loop behavior. However, mechanistic interpretability tools from language and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xinchen Jin , Aditya Chatterjee , Pranav Kumar , Rohan Paleja

Large language models (LLMs) have proven to work well in question-answering scenarios, but real-world applications often require access to tools for live information or actuation. For this, LLMs can be extended with tools, which are often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Robert K. Strehlow , Tobias Küster , Oskar F. Kupke , Brandon Llanque Kurps , Fikret Sivrikaya , Sahin Albayrak

AI agent frameworks connecting large language model (LLM) reasoning to host execution surfaces -- shell, filesystem, containers, and messaging -- introduce security challenges structurally distinct from conventional software. We present a…

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The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has catalyzed automation in customer service, yet benchmarking their performance remains challenging. Existing benchmarks predominantly rely on static paradigms and single-dimensional metrics,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ling Shi , Yuqin Dai , Ziyin Wang , Ning Gao , Wei Zhang , Chaozheng Wang , Yujie Wang , Wei He , Jinpeng Wang , Deiyi Xiong

AI-based systems, currently driven largely by LLMs and tool-using agentic harnesses, are increasingly discussed as a possible threat to software engineering. Foundation models get stronger, agents can plan and act across multiple steps, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Robert Feldt , Per Lenberg , Julian Frattini , Dhasarathy Parthasarathy

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MASs) are transforming personal productivity by autonomously executing complex, cross-platform tasks. Frameworks such as OpenClaw demonstrate the potential of locally deployed agents integrated with personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Haoyu Wang , Zibo Xiao , Yedi Zhang , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jun Sun

Traditional smart contracts on blockchains excel at on-chain, deterministic logic. However, they have inherent limitations when dealing with large-scale off-chain data, dynamic multi-step workflows, and scenarios requiring high flexibility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Haowei Yang

The arrival of large language models (LLMs) capable of multi-step reasoning, tool use, and long-horizon planning has produced a qualitative shift in software engineering. Where earlier code-completion tools such as GitHub Copilot operated…

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Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents often struggle to generalize knowledge to new tasks, even those structurally similar to ones they have mastered. Although recent approaches have attempted to mitigate this issue via zero-shot transfer,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ajsal Shereef Palattuparambil , Thommen George Karimpanal , Santu Rana

Autonomous agent frameworks built upon large language models (LLMs) are evolving into complex, tool-integrated, and continuously operating systems, introducing security risks beyond traditional prompt-level vulnerabilities. As this paradigm…

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