AGATE: Provenance-Based Runtime Defense Against Compositional Attacks on LLM Agents

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Xiaorui Zhang, Zhuoran Cheng, Kailin Liu, Zhaoxi Sun, Shiyu Fan, Tongyu Yuan, Bin Yuan, Weizhong Qiang, Deqing Zou)

Summary by Cyber Security News28 Sep 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2609.30830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents can produce harmful effects through sequences of ordinary operations. Judging such actions requires establishing both the authority that permits them and the origin of the data they carry. We present AGATE, an authorization and data-provenance gate at instrumented agent-harness boundaries.

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