ANCHOR: Automated Alignment Auditing for CLI Agents on Real-World Harm
Autonomous CLI agents can now execute hundreds of actions across multi-hour sessions: writing code, executing shell commands, browsing the web, and managing cloud infrastructure, all with minimal human oversight. Does greater autonomy invite greater risk? We introduce ANCHOR, an automated auditing framework that stress-tests CLI agents on illegal tasks grounded in public US court cases. ANCHOR deploys an auditor agent fine-tuned on dark personality data using supervised and reinforcement fine tu
Record details
Published: 11 July 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment · Agents & autonomy · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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