Agent-Native Immune System: Architecture, Taxonomy, and Engineering
The transition from static chat bots to autonomous agents--equipped with persistent memory, tool-use protocols, and multi-agent collaboration--has fundamentally expanded the AI threat landscape. Current defense mechanisms, such as perimeter security and training-time alignment, remain external to the agent's active reasoning loop. Consequently, they fall short: a fully aligned agent remains highly vulnerable to runtime hijacking via memory poisoning, tool-chain manipulation, or multi-agent proto
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Published: 26 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment · Military & security · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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