SIR: Self-improving Red-teaming for Compute Use Agents
A self-improving red-teaming framework for computer-use agents automates adversarial discovery in real OS environments, raising the bar for safety testing before enterprise deployment.
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arXiv:2608.30207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer use agents (CUAs) are vision-language models that perceive a screen and act on a real operating system through mouse, keyboard, and terminal, and they are increasingly deployed to automate everyday digital tasks. Because they can be exposed to untrusted content while operating, they are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (IPI), in which an adversary plants instructions in content the agent will read and redirects it toward actions th
Editorial Analysis
Computer-use agents operating on live systems pose escalating risk; automated, iterative red-teaming is becoming a prerequisite for safe deployment.
Require iterative adversarial testing of any computer-use agent before granting it access to production systems.
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