{
  "id": 811,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20023v2",
  "title": "When Lower Privileges Suffice: Investigating Over-Privileged Tool Selection in LLM Agents",
  "summary": "As LLM agents increasingly select tools autonomously, their choices among tools with different privileges become safety-relevant. However, prior tool-selection studies focus on safety-agnostic metadata preferences, leaving privilege-sensitive choices underexplored. To address this gap, we study over-privileged tool selection, in which an agent selects or escalates to a higher-privilege tool despite a sufficient lower-privilege alternative. We introduce ToolPrivBench to evaluate whether agents ch",
  "authors": "Kaiyue Yang, Yuyan Bu, Jingwei Yi, Yuchi Wang, Biyu Zhou, Juntao Dai et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-06-18T09:54:48.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:50.322Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/811",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20023v2",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}