ScopeBench: Why Goal Completion Is Not Enough for Autonomous Security Agents

Name: ScopeBench: Why Goal Completion Is Not Enough for Autonomous Security Agents
Uploaded: 2026-09-28T12:08:09.583Z
Duration: 202 s
Description: ScopeBench examines whether autonomous penetration-testing agents preserve client-defined scope when completing an objective would require an out-of-scope action. It matters because task capability does not by itself show that an agent will honor authorization boundaries.

Explain scope adherence in ScopeBench: whether an autonomous penetration-testing agent preserves client-defined authorization boundaries when its assigned goal creates pressure to go out of scope, and why that behavior matters beyond raw task capability.

3:22Published September 28, 2026Revision 1

ScopeBench examines whether autonomous penetration-testing agents preserve client-defined scope when completing an objective would require an out-of-scope action. It matters because task capability does not by itself show that an agent will honor authorization boundaries.

Sources

ScopeBench: Do Agents Preserve Engagement Boundaries Under Goal Pressure? — Shane Caldwell, Max Harley, Ads Dawson, and coauthors; dreadnode (as indexed by Paper.DOU)
ScopeBench: Do Agents Preserve Engagement Boundaries Under Goal Pressure? — AL Hukuk & Arabuluculuk
AI 技术日报 - 2026-09-28 — Recsys Frontier / 九老师

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