Tool Access Control for LLM Agents

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  1. VAKRA: Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning Across APIs and Retrieval Under Tool-Use Policies

    Aug 12, 2026Ankita Rajaram Naik, Anupama Murthi, Benjamin Elder +6Tool-Use EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

  2. Rethinking Agent Security as a Networking Problem

    Aug 12, 2026Van Tran, Taveesh Sharma, Tajveer Singh Dhesi +1CybersecurityAI Agent Security

    University of Chicago Chicago, United States

  3. On Understanding, Identifying, and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in Agentic Large Language Models

    Aug 11, 2026Md Jafrin Hossain, Mohammad Arif Hossain, Nirwan AnsariLLM Agent SecurityLLM Security

    Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA · Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA · New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

  4. MAP-Graph: Provenance-Aware Shared Memory for Multi-Agent Workflows

    Aug 11, 2026Yiqi Wang, Zihao Yan, Jiaqi Zhang +5Agent MemoryData Provenance

  5. Multi-Agent AI Safety as an Institutional Design Problem

    Aug 10, 2026Abdullah XAI Agent SafetyMulti-Agent Systems

    POLIS Research Programme, Project AWARE

  6. Context Is Not Authority: Structured Runtime Governance for Financial Market Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Rui Tang, Qiangqiang Liu, Yichi Zhang +3Financial ServicesAI Agent Security

    OpenAsk · Binance · New York University New York, New York, USA +2

  7. Fluid Structure, Rigid Record: A Layered Organizational Design Framework for Agent-Native Organizations

    Aug 9, 2026Lucian ZhuMulti-Agent OrchestrationAI Agent Governance

    Independent Researcher

  8. Compositional Threat Analysis of Latent Compromise in LLM Agent Systems: The Order 66 Scenario

    Aug 8, 2026Satoshi MatsuokaLLM Agent SecurityAgent Memory Poisoning

    RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan

  9. NiyamAI - An Intent-Bound AI Agent with Cryptographically Verifiable Guardrails using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

    Aug 7, 2026Aditya Katkar, Om Karkele, Kartik Mandhane +2Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Guardrails

    Department of Computer Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India

  10. Hardware Keystores for AI Agent Signing Workflows: A Zero-Trust MCP Enforcement Architecture

    Aug 6, 2026Leo Sambrook, Sampo SovioMCP SecurityAI Agent Security

    Hardware Systems Security Lab (HSSL) Huawei Technologies & EPITA Helsinki, Finland

  11. The Vulnerability With No CVE: Managing Persistent Gaps Between Mandate and Authority in AI Coding Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Shayell Aharon Salomon Amir Shaked Matan NogaAI Coding AgentsAI Agent Security

    Bluebear Security

  12. Stateful Governance for Concurrent Agentic Systems

    Aug 3, 2026Yuxiang Peng, Xiaodi WuAgentic WorkflowsAI Agent Governance

    Purdue University · West Lafayette, Indiana, USA · University of Maryland, College Park +1

  13. Beyond Single-Use Tokens: Durable Authorization State for Replay-Resistant LLM Agent Actions

    Aug 3, 2026Jinghan Xu, Longze Fan, Zeyuan Wang +2LLM Agent SecurityAccess Control

    1Nankai University, China · 2China University of Petroleum, China · 3Sun Yat-sen University, China +1

  14. Securing Agentic AI: From Per-Action Checks to Trajectory Assurance

    Aug 3, 2026Alireza Lotfi, Subangkar Karmaker Shanto, Imtiaz Karim +1AI Agent SecurityLLM Agent Security

    Purdue University · Department of Computer Science · West Lafayette, IN, USA +2

  15. Permission Denied: Policy-Graded Evaluation of Coding Agents in Hardened Environments

    Aug 2, 2026Dotan Davidovich, Yair Amar, Hai Rozencwajg +1Software Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Accomplish AI

  16. CAGE: Certified Authorization under Typed-Return Uncertainty for Tool-Using Agents

    Jul 31, 2026Blaise Delattre, Cong Wang, Yang CaoLLM Agent SecurityTool-Using Agents

    Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · City University of Hong Kong

  17. Memory Provenance Laundering in LLM Agents: A Non-Amplification Firewall for Persistent Memory

    Jul 31, 2026Jinghan Xu, Yiyong Xiao, Wanru Shao +2Persistent Memory for Language ModelsAgent Memory Poisoning

  18. HALO: Heterogeneous Admission through Localized Obligations for Safe Agentic Execution

    Jul 30, 2026Taewoo Park, Kyeonghyun Yoo, Kiseok Kim +2AI Agent SafetyRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Korea University

  19. FAVA: Formal Authorization for Verified Agents with Evidence-Backed Permission Graphs

    Jul 29, 2026Yifan Zhang, Xinkui Zhao, Sai Liu +3LLM Agent SecurityTool Access Control for LLM Agents

    Zhejiang University

  20. Distributing Security Controls Through Harness Engineering

    Jul 28, 2026William Robert GoreAI Agent SecurityLLM Agent Security

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  21. Explanation-Bound Tool Execution for AI Agents: Server-Verified Action Claims Without Trusting Model Rationales

    Jul 28, 2026Genliang Zhu, Chu WangLLM Agent SecurityLLM Agent Verification

    Accentrust · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  22. Hybrid Analysis for Secure MCP Tool Use in LLM Agents

    Jul 28, 2026Ping He, Yuexiang Xie, Yaliang Li +1MCP SecurityLLM Agent Security

    Zhejiang University · Alibaba Group

  23. Agentic Permissions Policy Algebra for Taint Confinement in LLM Agents

    Jul 27, 2026Arseny Kravchenko, Vadim Liventsev, Innokentii Konstantinov +2LLM Agent SecurityPrompt Injection Attacks on AI Agents

    Archestra AI

  24. MemTX: Transactional Belief Commit for Stateful Agent Memory

    Jul 27, 2026Xiaoyang Li, Yiqi Wang, Haohui Lu +5Belief RevisionLLM Agent Safety

    University of Southern Queensland · 2Griffith University · 3The University of Sydney +2

  25. Are You Still the Agent I Authorized? Earned Authority under a Fixed Ceiling for Evolving Agents

    Jul 26, 2026Zhaoxi Zhang, Xiaomei ZhangTool-Use AuthorizationTool Access Control for LLM Agents

    University of Technology Sydney · Griffith University

  26. Dynamic Capability Scoping for Enterprise AI Agents: A Synthetic Dataset and Three-Source Permission Architecture

    Jul 24, 2026Halil Burak NoyanLLM Agent SecurityAI Agent Security Benchmarks

    Independent Researcher, London, United Kingdom.

  27. ToolGuardian: Declarative Security for AI Agent-Tool Interactions

    Jul 23, 2026Arun Ravindran, Saurabh DeochakeAI Agent SecurityLLM Agent Security

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC · SentinelOne Mountain View, CA

  28. Cryptographically verifiable authorization for autonomous AI agents: a falsifiable hypothesis and proof of concept

    Jul 23, 2026M. Llambí-Morillas, D. Fernández-FernándezAI Agent SecurityAI Agent Governance

    Universidad Tecnológica Atlántico-Mediterráneo (UTAMED) · Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)

  29. Data Leakage Prevention in Agentic Applications via Preemptive Hardening

    Jul 21, 2026Akansha Shukla, Emily Bellov, Parth Atulbhai Gandhi +2AI Agent SecurityLLM Agent Security

    Faculty of Computer and Information Science Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel

  30. RT-SHCUA: Real-Time Self-Hosted Computer-Use Agent for UAV Control

    Jul 20, 2026Di Lu, Bo Zhang, Xiyuan Li +5Aerial RoboticsSafety-Critical Control

    School of Cyber Engineering, Shaanxi Key Lab of Network and System Security, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710071, China. · College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.