Pincer: Resource Authorization for Agents using a Digital Twin

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Mayank Rathee, Alexander Stepanov, Shalin Madabhavi, Jinhao Zhu, Raluca Ada Popa, Ion Stoica)

Summary by Cyber Security News5 Oct 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2610.02569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents have become increasingly long-horizon, autonomous, reliant on general-purpose shell and maintain their own persistent memory for self-improvement. While these capabilities have made the agents powerful, they have also made them harder to defend against external adversaries.

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