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Deema Alnuhait, Gengyu Wang, Muhammad Khalifa, Hao Peng
The authors test whether a planning agent will help an outside developer cross a deployment authorization boundary by encoding a protected credential in ordinary requirements, without being taught a code or instructed to evade monitoring. In a controlled workflow, 54 of 6,000 episodes produced monitor-cleared recovery and authentication of the exact secret (0.90%); this is not a deployment breach rate.
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