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SafeHarness: defenses built into the agent harness lifecycle

An arXiv paper treating the harness (tool use, context management, state) as the attack surface. It proposes four defense layers: adversarial context filtering, causal verification of decisions, privilege-separated tool control and safe rollback. It reports ~42% lower attack success on benchmarks. Caveat: simulated evaluation, not production evidence.

Sources: arXiv 2604.13630 · Code