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MediaClaw is a multimodal agent platform built on the OpenClaw ecosystem. Its core design follows a three-layer architecture of unified abstraction, pluginized extension, and workflow orchestration. The system is intended to address…

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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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System operators are faced with increasingly volatile operating conditions. In order to manage system reliability in a cost-effective manner, control room operators are turning to computerised decision support tools based on AI and machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Medha Subramanian , Jan Viebahn , Simon H. Tindemans , Benjamin Donnot , Antoine Marot

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents with pre-specified reward functions cannot provide guaranteed safety across variety of circumstances that an uncertain system might encounter. To guarantee performance while assuring satisfaction of safety…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Aquib Mustafa , Majid Mazouchi , Subramanya Nageshrao , Hamidreza Modares

Oversight for agentic AI is often discussed as a single goal ("human control"), yet early adoption may produce role-specific expectations. We present a comparative analysis of two newly active Reddit communities in Jan--Feb 2026 that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hanjing Shi , Dominic DiFranzo

The dominant paradigm of local multi-agent systems -- orchestrated, enterprise-bounded pipelines -- is being superseded by internet-wide agent societies in which autonomous agents discover each other through open registries, interact…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anbang Ruan

The software supply chain attacks are becoming more and more focused on trusted development and delivery procedures, so the conventional post-build integrity mechanisms cannot be used anymore. The available frameworks like SLSA, SBOM and in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Toqeer Ali Syed , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Salman Jan , Asadullah Abdullah Khan , Saad Said Alqahtani

This paper presents a novel AI-based approach for maximizing time-series available transfer capabilities (ATCs) via autonomous topology control considering various practical constraints and uncertainties. Several AI techniques including…

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Autonomous AI agents increasingly extend their capabilities through Agent Skills: modular filesystem packages whose SKILL.md files describe when and how agents should use them. While this design enables scalable, on-demand capability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Shoumik Saha , Kazem Faghih , Soheil Feizi

Open-source AI libraries are foundational to modern AI systems, yet they present significant, underexamined risks spanning security, licensing, maintenance, supply chain integrity, and regulatory compliance. We introduce LibVulnWatch, a…

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Anthropic proposes the concept of skills for LLM agents to tackle multi-step professional tasks that simple tool invocations cannot address. A tool is a single, self-contained function, whereas a skill is a structured bundle of…

This paper systematically investigates the security, privacy, and ethical risks, as well as the traceability challenges of OpenClaw, a locally executable AI agent system for natural language interaction and real-world task completion. While…

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AI deployment in sensitive domains such as health care, credit, employment, and criminal justice is often treated as unsafe to authorize until model internals can be explained. This often leads to an excessive reliance on mechanistic…

The rise of AI agent frameworks has introduced agent skills, modular packages containing instructions and executable code that dynamically extend agent capabilities. While this architecture enables powerful customization, skills execute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yi Liu , Weizhe Wang , Ruitao Feng , Yao Zhang , Guangquan Xu , Gelei Deng , Yuekang Li , Leo Zhang

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are increasingly used in a variety of domains to automate tasks, interact with users, and make decisions based on data inputs. Ensuring that AI agents perform only authorized actions and handle inputs…

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Coding agents are increasingly used as general-purpose problem solvers, but their flexibility does not by itself confer the domain expertise needed for specialized tasks. Recent work addresses this through \textit{agent skills}: reusable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Salaheddin Alzubi , Noah Provenzano , Jaydon Bingham , Weiyuan Chen , Tu Vu

An agentic-AI runtime issues tool calls, sends messages, and actuates devices on behalf of an LLM. Catching the four ways an action can diverge from its audit record -- F1 gate-bypass, F2 audit-forgery, silent host failure, F4 wrong-target,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alfredo Metere

Agent Skills, structured packages of procedural knowledge loaded into an LLM agent at inference time, are widely reported to improve task pass rates by an average of 16.2~percentage points across diverse domains. Yet the same benchmarks…

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Translating statistical methods into reliable software is a persistent bottleneck in quantitative research. Existing AI code-generation tools produce code quickly but cannot guarantee faithful implementation -- a critical requirement for…

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