We're excited to announce our new work! Asynchronous monitoring, incident investigations, and compliance audits primarily rely on agent traces to reconstruct a sequence of actions taken by agents. These analyses assume that LLM agents cannot tamper with their own execution traces. We show that local LLM agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Open Code and Grok Build fail to enforce this boundary. All tested harnesses, except Muse Code, allowed agents to delete their traces when asked, without triggering monitor guardrails. This demonstrates a critical gap on two levels: 1. the low refusal rate on a model level suggests that current alignment training does not sufficiently discourage trace tampering, creating a risk of malicious or accidental manipulation of execution traces, 2. on the harness level, common agent CLIs and configurations also do not provide very effective safeguards against trace tampering. At Exponential, we are actively working on security and safety benchmarks, both public and private. Get in touch if you are interested! More details: expsec.ai.

Project website: perfect-crime.ai Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2609.30266

We're excited to announce a new paper! We find that many recent models end up evading monitors under ordinary task pressure. We introduce EvasionBench to measure this behavior. We find a very large variance in how models behave: from 88% evasion success of GLM-5.2 to 0% of GPT-6 Astra under best-of-3 evaluation. At the same time, GPT-6 Sol is at 20%. We are actively working on security and safety benchmarks, both public and private. Get in touch if you are interested! More details: expsec.ai/

Today we are announcing our new startup: Exponential Security Labs. AI agents are being deployed everywhere, making high-stakes decisions and increasingly automating research itself. Yet their reliability and security remain unsolved technical problems, on a frontier that keeps shifting. Our mission is to secure agentic systems through self-improving red-teaming and guardrail agents, leveraging autonomous AI research. We sit at the intersection of safety and self-improvement, building on a decade of research in adversarial robustness and AI safety. We're looking for exceptional people to join us! We're looking for exceptional people to join us on this mission, and we're also eager to talk to companies deploying AI agents who want to improve their security. Please get in touch! More details: expsec.ai/ Founding team: @Nmndsingh, @AnselmPaulus, @maksym_andr, Matthias Hein