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ARXIV:2605.09684 · AGENT MONITORING · SUBMITTED 06 JUN · 20:09 UTC · FRESHNESS FRESH
ARXIV:2605.09684AGENT MONITORINGSUBMITTED 06 JUN · 20:09 UTCFRESHNESS FRESHMonika Jotautaitė · Maria Angelica Martinez · Ollie Matthews · Tyler Tracy · arXiv
A semi-automated red-teaming pipeline and benchmark for evaluating and improving AI agent monitors by generating diverse and stronger attack trajectories.
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Pain A semi-automated red-teaming pipeline and benchmark for evaluating and improving AI agent monitors by generating diverse and stronger attack trajectories.
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A semi-automated red-teaming pipeline and benchmark for evaluating and improving AI agent monitors by generating diverse and stronger attack trajectories. We identify three challenges with current red-teaming.
We introduce a red-teaming methodology that exposes harder-to-catch attacks for coding-agent monitors, suggesting that current practices may under-elicit attacks and overstate monitor performance. We identify three challenges with current red-teaming.
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. MonitoringBench provides both a static benchmark for current tool-use monitors and a reusable methodology for refreshing these evaluations as agents and monitors improve. Code…
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A semi-automated red-teaming pipeline and benchmark for evaluating and improving AI agent monitors by generating diverse and stronger attack trajectories.
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10.48550/arXiv.2605.09684A semi-automated red-teaming pipeline and benchmark for evaluating and improving AI agent monitors by generating diverse and stronger attack trajectories.
Abstract
We introduce a red-teaming methodology that exposes harder-to-catch attacks for coding-agent monitors, suggesting that current practices may under-elicit attacks and overstate monitor performance. We identify three challenges with current red-teaming. First, mode collapse in attack generation, which we reduce with a novel attack taxonomy for broader coverage. Second, a conceive-execute gap: frontier LLMs can propose strong attack ideas or execute them, but not all at once. We mitigate this by decomposing attack construction into strategy generation, execution, and post-hoc trajectory refinement. Third, manual elicitation is costly to scale, which we address with our semi-automated red-teaming pipeline. Applied to BashArena, an AI control setting for tool-using coding agents, this pipeline produces MonitoringBench, a benchmark of 2,644 attack trajectories for evaluating monitor capabilities and failure modes. Our pipeline produces more diverse and stronger attacks: Opus-4.5 monitor's catch rate falls from 94.9\% on elicited-only Opus attacks to 60.3\% on our best refined attacks, with larger drops for several mid-tier monitors. Attacks optimized against three development monitors generalize to ten held-out monitors, with catch rates generally increasing with monitor capability. Using this benchmark, we provide a snapshot of the current monitor capabilities and find that frontier monitors often detect suspicious actions but fall for persuasion or fail to calibrate suspiciousness scores appropriately, suggesting tractable paths for improvement. MonitoringBench provides both a static benchmark for current tool-use monitors and a reusable methodology for refreshing these evaluations as agents and monitors improve.
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PROBLEM
A semi-automated red-teaming pipeline and benchmark for evaluating and improving AI agent monitors by generating diverse and stronger attack trajectories. We identify three challenges with current red-teaming.
METHOD
We introduce a red-teaming methodology that exposes harder-to-catch attacks for coding-agent monitors, suggesting that current practices may under-elicit attacks and overstate monitor performance. We identify three challenges with current red-teaming.
RESULT
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. MonitoringBench provides both a static benchmark for current tool-use monitors and a reusable methodology for refreshing these evaluations as agents and monitors improve. Code availability is flagged in t...
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Agent Monitoring moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A semi-automated red-teaming pipeline and benchmark for evaluating and improving AI agent monitors by generating diverse and stronger attack trajectories. We identify three challenges with current red-teaming.
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We introduce a red-teaming methodology that exposes harder-to-catch attacks for coding-agent monitors, suggesting that current practices may under-elicit attacks and overstate monitor performance. We identify three challenges with current red-teaming.
Abstract-backed fallback claim; anchored extraction has not materialized a public claim row yet.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. MonitoringBench provides both a static benchmark for current tool-use monitors and a reusable methodology for refreshing these evaluations as agents and monitors improve. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.
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Agent Monitoring moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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