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How would you red-team a multi-agent system?

Map effective authority, test component and handoff boundaries in authorized isolation, and report captured effects with coverage limits. Keep adaptive discovery separate from estimates of production risk.

hardNewUpdated Nov 2026

Map effective authority, test component and handoff boundaries in authorized isolation, and report captured effects with coverage limits. Keep adaptive discovery separate from estimates of production risk.

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  3. 03 Name a condition that would change your decision.

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A document reader passes a case to a report publisher. In one of 20 adaptively selected trials, the publisher posts a synthetic private report to an unapproved captured workspace.

  1. What makes this a confirmed finding?
  2. Can the team predict one bad publication per 20 daily tasks?
  3. Does fixing the reader’s prompt resolve the finding?
  4. What should the handover include?

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