ChannelGuard: Safe Models Do Not Compose into Safe Multi-Agent Systems
4.40T1 sourcearXiv cs.MA
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Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19430.
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SummaryThe paper demonstrates that individually safe LLMs do not compose into safe multi-agent systems, as inter-agent communication channels are unmonitored attack surfaces. Evaluation of 2,100 traces across 8 attack families showed apparent safety often depends on cloud provider server-side filters. ChannelGuard, a training-free framework using embedding-similarity gates on each inter-agent channel, is proposed and tested.
Why it mattersIdentifies a composition gap in multi-agent pipelines and gives a deployable, low-cost defense with measured numbers; relevant to anyone chaining LLM agents.
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