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[CS.AI] HASTE: Evolving Agent Harnesses Using Sparse Threat Evidence

Published at: 2026-10-05 22:00 Last updated: 2026-10-06 12:11
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Agent harnesses enforce safety constraints to block unsafe actions, but emerging attacks outpace manual updates, calling for automated evolution. HASTE is a multi‑agent framework that couples a safety‑specification generator with an attack‑case generator. The former extracts constraints from sparse threat evidence such as brief descriptions or a few attack examples; the latter probes for uncovered vulnerabilities after each update. By feeding evaluation outcomes back to both generators, the system iteratively refines harnesses beyond the initial evidence.\ \ The workflow proceeds as follows:\

  1. Parse key statements or examples from threat reports;\
  2. Generate safety specifications;\
  3. Synthesize attack cases under the current specifications;\
  4. Evaluate attack success and feed the results back to guide the next generation round.\ \ Experiments across several backbone models, attack families, and evidence formats show that HASTE consistently reduces attack success rates while preserving benign‑task performance.\ \ The implementation is available at https://github.com/xxiqiao/HASTE.\ \ Review
Original Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02920

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