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ClawSentry: A Progressive Multi-Tier Security Monitor for Safeguarding Autonomous LLM Agents

arXiv cs.CR LLM Agents Kai Wang, Zeming Wei, BiaoJie Zeng, Chang Jin, An Wang, Xiaokun Luan, Zhixiao Lin, Jingjing Qu, Xia Hu, Xingcheng Xu 2026-08-21
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TL;DR - ClawSentry is an open-source, framework-agnostic security gateway that monitors autonomous LLM agents across skill admission, intent review, execution, and post-action consequences. Its progressive review tiers substantially reduce successful attacks while largely preserving performance on benign tasks.

  • Combines deterministic checks, semantic review, and bounded read-only agentic investigation, escalating only ambiguous cases.
  • Reviews skill packages before first use and tracks rephrased or tool-switched retries across an entire session.
  • Applies a shared policy across Codex, Claude Code, Kimi CLI, and Gemini CLI without modifying agent internals.
  • On SkillInject with Codex/GPT-5.4, attack success fell from 39.55% to 2.61%, while task success decreased from 83.78% to 83.05%; across five agents, clean-skill task success remained 98.7%.

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