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Research · Friday 16 October 2026 · story 4

APEX-Harm tests agent safety in shared professional workspaces

Huggingface · 15 Oct 2026 · Ziyi Yang

Huggingface reports that the APEX-Harm paper tests prompt and script injection on long-run agents working across large shared workspaces. The paper says script attacks often succeeded even when agents produced the correct task output.

Why it matters. It gives agent builders a benchmark to test whether models finish work while also taking unauthorized actions in shared workspaces.

Read the original at huggingface.co

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