ProbeID: Verifying MCP Tool Identity for LLM Agents under Registry Drift

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Guanxing Chen, Sining Zhang, Haohuai He, Qiujie Lv, Yu-An Huang, Zhi-An Huang)

Summary by Cyber Security News27 Oct 2026, 05:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.33633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents select tools by copyable descriptions, which cannot establish which implementation runs. ProbeID compares canonicalized responses to schema-valid probes with a trusted admission reference and abstains on ambiguity, so a squatter must copy probe-observable behavior.

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