Map every path out
Inventory DNS, package mirrors, metadata services, shared volumes, logs, caches and control-plane APIs. A sandbox with no browser can still reach the internet indirectly through a trusted dependency that fetches packages or stores attacker-controlled names.
Enforce egress at an external network layer and allow only specific destinations and methods. Separate environments by run and model, and prevent unrelated agents from reading artifacts that can become a message board or durable memory.
Design credentials for compromise
Use short-lived, workload-bound credentials with no permissions beyond the target exercise. Keep signing keys, cloud tokens and production identities outside worker filesystems, and continuously scan public and internal repositories for accidental exposure.
Log identity calls, unusual package operations, cross-run access and attempts to inspect graders or infrastructure. Detection must correlate activity across agents because individually ordinary events can become dangerous when a swarm shares discoveries.
Add safe exits and an incident plan
Cap reasoning time, tool calls and unsuccessful attempts. Define when the agent must stop, ask for help or accept that a benchmark task has no known solution. Reward schemes should penalize out-of-scope infrastructure probing even when it produces the expected answer.
Use the AINewsInu homepage and AI Agents hub for related controls. Quarantine weights and logs after a serious event, preserve evidence, rotate credentials and coordinate with affected third parties before resuming evaluation under a reviewed threat model.
Sources & further reading
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