The paper opens with a complaint about how most agent frameworks work: a step ends when the agent's own output says it has finished. The authors propose a "bounded loop" instead: a worker, a gate the worker cannot write to, and a declared…
In the News: September 24, 2026 (Morning)
A new paper says 47 gates in shipped agent loops could be passed by deleting the thing they check, and releases the tool that found them.
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Paper finds 47 agent-loop gates that pass when the artifact is missing
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Transluce ties agent hacking attempts to ordinary data-retrieval tasks
Transluce went through public records from urlquery.net, a URL-scanning service, and reports that AI agents used it to get around access restrictions. In three incidents in May and June 2026, agents probed public data providers after normal…