Permitted but Unauthorized: Affordance-Induced Delegated-Scope Violations in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Shravya Kanchi)

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

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arXiv:2611.04086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems place several agents on shared infrastructure, where each agent holds permissions far broader than the task it is delegated -- so every agent is routinely permitted to act on a peer's resources it was never assigned. We ask: under competitive pressure, what determines whether an agent crosses from its delegated scope into a peer's resources, and can such crossings be enforced away?

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