Can Benign Skills Induce Misaligned Behavior in LLM Agents?

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Xuanye Zhang, Yongsen Zheng, Kaiyu Zhou, Bowen Shen, Haoran Ou, Zhuqin Xu, Tianwei Zhang, Kwok-Yan Lam)

Summary by Cyber Security News4 Nov 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2611.04299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to plan tasks, invoke tools, recover from errors, and complete workflows without modifying model parameters. Although these skills are typically developed to enhance benign tasks, they may also make an agent more capable of executing procedures for harmful purposes.

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