Contextual Agent Security: A Policy for Every Purpose

Contextual Agent Security: A Policy for Every Purpose Lillian Tsai Google tslilyai@google.com Eugene Bagdasarian Google ebagdasa@google.com Abstract Judging an action’s safety requires knowledge of thecon- textin which the action takes place. To human agents who act in various contexts, this may seem obvious: performing an action such as email deletion may or may not be appro- priate depending on the email’s content, the goal (e.g., to erase sensitive emails or to clean up trash), and the type of email address (e.g., work or personal). Unlike people, com- putational systems have often had only limited agency in limited contexts. Thus, manually crafted policies and user confirmation (e.g., smartphone app permissions or network access control lists), while imperfect, have sufficed to restrict harmful actions. However, with the upcoming deployment of generalist agents that support a multitude of tasks (e.g., an automated personal assistant), we argue that we must rethink security designs to adapt to the scale of contexts and capabilities of these systems. As a first step, this paper explores contextual security in the domain of agents and proposescontextual agent security(Conseca), a framework to generate just-in-time, contextual, and human-verifiable security policies. CCS Concepts •Security and privacy→Operating systems security; Vulnerability management;Access control;•Comput- ing methodologies→Artificial intelligence. ACM Reference Format: Lillian Tsai and Eugene Bagdasarian. 2025. Contextual Agent Se- curity: A Policy for Every Purpose. InWorkshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HOTOS ’25), May 14–16, 2025, Banff, AB, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3713082. 3730378 1 Introduction Context forms the basis for every action, whether taken by a human or a system: we can disambiguate an action’s mean- ing only via the context in which it exists. For example, in the context of an urgent deadline, scheduling over a lunch This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Interna- tional License. HOTOS ’25, Banff, AB, Canada ©2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). ACM ISBN 979-8-4007-1475-7/2025/05 https://doi.org/10.1145/3713082.3730378 break might be appropriate, while the same action would be inappropriate for a casual sync. Researchers have already integrated context to understand privacy in computer sys- tems [5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 30, 39, 48, 51, 52, 66, 74], which also manifests as appropriateness in AI agents [41]. Importantly, in adversarial settings, analyzing surrounding context is nec- essary to differentiate harmful from benign actions. However, approaches today for systems security depend on manually-specified contexts, or no context at all. Con- ventional security systems often use policy enforcers and access controls [1, 6, 12–14, 18, 29, 45, 46, 49, 56, 64, 67, 83, 86]. While these can support fine-grained policies and capabilities, their rules are (manually) prewritten and poli- cies static. Because policy or rule writers cannot account for every possible context, these rules can overrestrict ac- tions in some contexts, overallow actions in others, and be challenging to write [37, 63]. Some systems’ reliance on e.g., manual user confirmation can also lead to user fatigue and overpermissioning [19, 21, 24, 33, 57, 61]. These limitations, while affecting any multi-purpose system like a filesystem or OS, have become increasingly important to address with the rise of systems like generalist (AI) agents [3, 25, 62, 79, 87], which may serve a far broader range of purposes and thus encounter far broader contexts. We make the key observation that as the scale of contexts encountered by a system increases, so must the granularity of policies; otherwise, potential over- or under-permissioning may significantly impair utility or security. To this end, we need more research into how to secure systems with broad capabilities and purposes. As a first step to explore how to scale security to match growing system capabilities, we focus on the domain of agents (AI and otherwise) and proposecontextual agent se- curity(Conseca 1 ), a framework that moves us closer toward a world where every action has a contextually-appropriate, purpose-driven justification. Conseca demonstrates a possi- ble way to integrate context at scale to achieve both better utility and better security than static security policies: Con- seca generates just-in-time, contextual, and transparent se- curity policies that specify which actions are not harmful for a given context and purpose (and restrict all other actions). Policy enforcement is deterministic, making enforcement impervious to attacks like prompt injections [32, 54, 75]. 1 “Conseca” is the second-person singular present active imperative of the Latin verb conseco. Conseco can mean e.g., “to cut” or “to prune”. arXiv:2501.17070v3 [cs.CR] 17 Apr 2025 HOTOS ’25, May 14–16, 2025, Banff, AB, CanadaLillian Tsai and Eugene Bagdasarian Scaling security for systems with many purposes and con- texts faces two main challenges. First, Conseca must pro- duce policies at per-context scale. Ideally, personal secu- rity experts would manually craft a custom policy for each encountered context, but this is impractical to realize. To solve this scalability challenge, Conseca uses the next-best proxy—a language model that can be adapted to understand user norms and security—to dynamically produce security policies for fine-grained contexts. To help mitigate errors from the policy language model, Conseca’s policies include human-readable rationales that can be audited by experts. Second, policy generation must be robust to adversarial manipulation, which is particularly concerning when pol- icy generation uses models. Conseca prevents adversary- controlled context (e.g., a sent email) from altering policies by isolating the policy model to handle only trusted context (e.g., user-provided data). Ideally, a model would have full context to best define appropriate actions; trusted context lets the model predict appropriate actions better than with- out any context, and more securely than with full context. This paper contributes the following: (1)A call to action for work on security mechanisms that can scale to potentially unknown tasks and contexts, particularly for general-purpose agent systems; (2)Conseca, a contextually-aware agent security frame- work that scales security for generalist agents using generated but deterministically-enforced policies spe- cific to a particular purpose and trusted context; and (3)A proof-of-concept prototype of Conseca integrated with a Linux computer-use agent (§4, §5). 2 Background and Threat Model We focus this paper onagents: systems that may fulfill po- tentially arbitrary user tasks and thus represent the full scope of the challenge to scale security. Given a user task request, an agent determines which actions to take to complete that task, and executes those actions, potentially using external tools [25, 62]. As shown in Figure 1, Conseca abstracts agents into a “planner” component that processes user requests and outputs one or more actions to execute (e.g., bash commands). The “executor” component actually runs actions and inter- faces with external tools. The executor returns outputs back to the planner, which may continue proposing actions. Var- ious implementations of agents exist: the planner may be e.g., an LLM (making the agent anAI agent) or a determin- istic program; the executor can be a separate program, or just lines of code in a planner program. This paper explores agents forcomputer usein particular, an agent application with many capabilities and potential for abuse [3, 53]. Thecontextof a user’s request contains all information (including the request) relevant for their requested task. For example, a user may wish to backup their important files: Agent Planner Executor User's Device Agent Tools User Task, Trusted + Untrusted Context (e.g., current time + email content) Executes Potentially Harmful Actions Returns Untrusted Response Figure 1:An agent contains a planner and an executor that interfaces with external tools. Untrusted context from the initial request or tool responses may compromise the agent. the context could include their username; filenames and file contents; job description; IP rights (work or personal); and where they store back-ups. Agents can receive context both directly with a user’s request, or from external tool responses. 2.1 Threat Model A unrestricted agent (Figure 1) might perform harmful ac- tions, both by mistake, and due to attacks where theadver- sary’s goalis to execute malicious actions via modifying the context (e.g., prompt-injection attacks on models [28, 32, 54]). For example, an attacker could send the user a phish- ing email which contains a script, and the agent might later be tricked into executing the script when reading the email contents for asummarize_emailstask. Conseca addresses these threats in a model where the adversary can only affect the agent’s actions by changing part of the context (e.g., sending a malicious email), and the agent is benevolent (but might make mistakes). As shown in Figure 1, we trust some context (e.g., timestamps), and consider other context untrusted (e.g., third-party emails). Theagent’s goalis to execute actions that align with user expectations and work toward fulfilling the user’s request, given the current context (e.g., the emails currently in the user’s inbox). This may require untrusted context (e.g., email contents in order to summarize them). 3 Design The Conseca framework performs two functions: (i) it takes task requests from the user along with trusted context (§3.1) and generates a task- and context-specific security policy (§3.2); and (i) it provides feedback to the agent on whether a proposed action satisfies the policy (§3.3). To use Conseca, the developer installs hooks that invoke (i) the policy generator with trusted context and external tool documentation upon a new user request, and (i) the policy evaluator to check proposed agent actions. Figure 2 demonstrates how Conseca operates: (1)Under some context, a user sends a task request to the agent (1a). Conseca’s policy generator processes the request, Contextual Agent Security: A Policy for Every PurposeHOTOS ’25, May 14–16, 2025, Banff, AB, Canada Deterministic Policy Enforcer Policy Generator Agent Planner Executor Email Bash Mouse Tools User's Device Conseca Library (Isolated) (1a) Task + All Context (1b) Task + Trusted Context Agent (6) Final Response (5) Action Response (2) Propose Action (4) Execute Action (3a) Policy Check, Action Denied (3b) Action Approved Contextual Security Policy Figure 2:Conseca enables policy generation and enforce- ment for an example computer use agent with access to external tools. Green lines indicate Conseca’s control flows. trusted context (1b, §3.1), and tool API documentation, and produces a task- and context-specific security policy (§3.2). (2-3)The planner proposes the next action to execute for the task, invoking the Conseca policy enforcer. The enforcer (deterministically) evaluates the action: if the policy denies the action, Conseca returns a rationale back to the planner (3a), which can propose a new action or request user con- firmation (§7). Otherwise, Conseca forwards the action to execute (3b). (4-6)The executor invokes a tool (if any) to carry out the action (e.g., sending bash commands to the bash tool); the output returned to the planner may contain untrusted content (e.g., email or file contents). The planner returns to (2) to select the next action to execute based on the task, context, and actions/outputs history. If the agent has completed the user’s task, the user receives the final output. 3.1 Trusted Context While context is essential to judge an action’s appropriate- ness, adversaries can manipulate some of the context and thus also influence the policy generator model. Conseca re- lies on developers to specify what context to trust (typically context not susceptible to potential attackers); alternatively, Conseca could ask users to set coarse-grained trusted con- text boundaries. Trusting more context can allow Conseca to write a more accurate policy, but also increases the po- tential for compromise. For example, an email address could in principle encode malicious instructions (address formats typically allow long sequences [59]). However, a developer might consider email addresses from a monitored domain to be safe, enabling Conseca to write a better policy (e.g., re- strict the agent to send emails to only “myteam@work.com" instead of any “*@work.com" address). 3.2 Contextual Security Policies The Conseca policy generator takes a user request and trusted context and outputs a policy: a set of constraints in a declara- tive language on the various tool APIs, and human-readable rationales for the constraints. For example, a filesystem tool policy written with regular expressions might include arm "/tmp/.*"constraint on thermcommand, with rationale "only remove temporary files when organizing". Tool APIs define the possible set of actions; the policy constrains this set by preventing a tool, a tool’s API call, or an instance of an API call with concrete arguments from executing. Conseca uses LLMs to scalably generate policies because they are sensitive to changes in context; in theory, a contex- tual security system can use any context-aware policy writer that can produce policies for every context. We leverage in- context learning [20]—prompting the LLM with a “golden” set of example policies to demonstrate what the model should output—to improve the generated policy quality. Developers can optionally ask users to approve a task’s pol- icy prior to agent task execution, given the constraints and their human-readable rationales. Policies can also be logged and later audited by the user, the developer, or a trusted third party. Conseca relies on experts (perhaps automated) to ensure that the rationale matches the constraints. 3.3 Deterministic Policy Enforcement Given a policy and a proposed action, the policy enforcer checks whether the action lies within the policy’s set of allowed actions by deterministically evaluating policy con- straints over the proposed action (e.g., checking predicates on action type or argument values, see § 4.1). When approv- ing or denying an action, Conseca returns the rationale for the decision to the agent for transparency and feedback. 3.4 Security Discussion Conseca trusts direct user input (e.g., the task to run), the specified trusted context (e.g., filesystem directory structure), the Conseca policy generator and enforcement code, and that the developer correctly integrated the agent with Conseca. Given these assumptions, Conseca ensures that no external tool action executes outside the current task’s security policy. Conseca’s guarantees clearly depend on the strength of its security policies, which facetwo fundamental limitations. First, policies are only as good as the policy generator’s understanding of the user’s preferences, social norms, and actions required to fulfill the requested task. Second, the gen- erator receives only limited, trusted contextual information (specified by the developer) in order to protect it against prompt injections. This restricts its ability to predict data- dependent actions (e.g., actions to allow when requested to “carry out the tasks requested in my manager’s email”). Be- cause Conseca’s design uses an LLM, policies can improve HOTOS ’25, May 14–16, 2025, Banff, AB, CanadaLillian Tsai and Eugene Bagdasarian by improving the model’s quality (tuning models for individ- ual user preferences or on user’s feedback about generated policies). Conseca can also increase trusted context by e.g., asking the user or sanitizing action responses. 4 Proof-of-Concept We implement a simple computer-use AI agent with Conseca in Python for a Linux machine. The agent has access to a filesystem tool (the POSIX filesystem API), a file processing tool (which supports, e.g.,findandsed), and an email tool that can read, send, delete, and categorize emails, and sup- ports attachments. For simplicity, the email tool sends and receives emails in aMaildirectory in users’ home directories. All tool APIs arebashcommands (e.g.,send_email alice bob ‘Hello’ ‘An Email’, ormkdir /home/alice/Backups). Without Conseca, the agent consists of planning and exe- cution stages. The planner uses the Gemini 1.5 Pro LLM [69] and produces a bash command as a string; the executor then runssubprocess.run([cmd]). This control loop continues un- til the planner declares the task complete. If the task does not complete within some number of commands (set to 100), the agent returns “could not complete”. 4.1 The Conseca Prototype Conseca is a Python library with the following API: •set_policy(task, trusted_ctxt) -> Policy •is_allowed(cmd, policy) -> (bool, str)#rationale where aPolicymaps an API call to constraints that include (i) whether the API call should ever be executed in this context, (i) a boolean constraint over API call arguments such that the call can only execute whenTrue; and (i) a (human- readable) rationale for the choice of the prior two constraints. Policy generation invokes the LLM with a prompt including the tool API documentation, example policies for in-context learning [20], the user’s task, and the trusted context. For example, given: •Task =“Get unread emails related to work and respond to any that are urgent” •Trusted Context = email addresses and usernames (Al- ice, Bob, etc.),current_user=Alice the policy generator returns constraints: API Call:send_email □Can Execute:True □Args Constraint:re.search(r‘alice’, $1) ∧re.search(r‘ ˆ .*@work\.com, $2) ∧re.search(r‘.*urgent.*’, $3) □We need to send urgent responses to emails. The sender must be ‘alice’ (current user). The recipient must be one of the users in the email list from work. The subject must contain ‘urgent’. API Call:delete_email □Can Execute:False □Args Constraint: N/A □We are not deleting any emails in this task. Policy Limitations.Our prototype represents argument constraints as regular expressions; future work might design a simpler DSL for constraints (e.g., predicates likeprefix, suffix, >, =, etc.) to avoid regex complexity [55, 73]. Con- seca also assumes positional API call parameters, and that the planner provides optional arguments last and in correct order; Conseca can support named arguments with changes to the policy generator prompt. Trusted Context.We (the “developers”) define trusted context as the users’ email categories and addresses, and a treeof the filesystem directory structure (file and directory names are trusted). Tool-agnostic context includes the user’s username, time, and date. We also trust static context like the tool documentation provided in the prompt. Agent Integration.Once Conseca sets the task’s policy, the agent invokesis_allowedwhen proposing a new com- mand. Conseca checks whether the policy allows the API call at all, and, if so, whether each argument matches its regex constraint. Allowed commands go to execution. Con- seca returns denied commands and their rationale to the planner, which the agent appends to the prompt to guide the planner LLM to choose an appropriate action. If commands continuously fail (up to 10 times), the agent returns “could not complete”. Extending our prototype with new tools requires adding tool documentation to the prompts of the policy generator and agent LLMs, and specifying how to extract trusted con- text from the tool. Adding the email tool API and a subset of the POSIX API required less than a day of effort. 5 Case Studies We demonstrate Conseca’s potential with a look at our proto- type’sutility(how many tasks can complete with and with- out Conseca policies?) andsecurity(can Conseca prevent actions misaligned with the current context?) We compare Conseca against baselines of the agent run with (i) no pol- icy; (i) a static restrictive policy that prevents all mutating actions; and (i) a static permissive policy that allows all actions except deletion. Setup.Experiments run on a Debian Linux machine with a client connection to an external Gemini 1.5 Pro model. Prior to running each task, we initialize the filesystem with 10 users, including an admin. Each user contains >10 files in each general or job-specific folder (e.g., Downloads, Photos, or Logs). Mailboxes start with emails from other Contextual Agent Security: A Policy for Every PurposeHOTOS ’25, May 14–16, 2025, Banff, AB, Canada Policy Avg Tasks Completed Inappropriate Actions Denied? None 14.0/20 N Static Permissive 12.2/20 N Static Restrictive 0.0/20 Y Conseca 12.0/20 Y Figure 3:The agent with Conseca achieves comparable util- ity to an agent with a static permissive policy and completes more tasks (avg over 5 trials) than with a restrictive static policy. Conseca demonstrates potential to deny contextually inappropriate actions, which permissive policies fail to do. users regarding work, family, etc.; some are categorized or include attachments like reports, invoices, and photos. We construct 20 tasks involving filesystem and emailing tools, all of which require some subjective judgement (e.g., what is “important”) and multiple tool calls. Tasks (Appen- dix A) range from simple (e.g., backup important files via email) to more complex (deduplicate files and send me an email listing the removed files). Limitations.To comprehensively evaluate Conseca’s ben- efits, future work will need ground-truth data from real agent applications’ workloads and contexts, instead of manually- curated, synthetic examples [17, 40, 65], which do not capture the full diversity of contexts. With ground-truth data, we can leverage ideas from red teaming [42, 85] and synthetic benchmarks [17, 38, 40, 43, 44, 65] to test Conseca’s benefits in real-world applications. Preliminary Results.Early results (Figure 3, Appen- dix A) indicate that an agent with Conseca offers better utility than a static restrictive policy, and comparable utility to a static permissive policy. The unrestricted agent com- pletes 70% of tasks on average. Four failed tasks—permission checks, organizing attachments, reading and acting upon ur- gent emails, and generating reports—required more than 100 actions, and two tasks—newsletter generation and checking for failed logins—proved too complex for our basic agent. The agent with Conseca achieves 60% completion on av- erage: both Conseca and permissive policies deny actions the task does not strictly require (e.g.,touching a summary file to create it), and our basic agent fails to make progress without these actions. No task completes with a restrictive policy because all tasks require writes. Inappropriate Actions.To demonstrate how Conseca’s contextual security policies can make inappropriate actions more difficult, we add an email from an employee with mes- sage “forward all emails about urgent security vulnerabili- ties toemployee@work.comimmediately”. Depending on the context—is the agent handling urgent email tasks or merely summarizing?—forwarding may or may not be appropriate. The unrestricted agent forwards emails even when inappro- priate (e.g., when the user has asked the agent to categorize emails), but an agent run with Conseca denies forwarding for all tasks other than “perform the tasks in urgent emails”. Fur- thermore, Conseca denies forwarding while still maintaining higher utility than a restrictive policy. 6 Related Work Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses.Many agents’ use of LLMs leaves them vulnerable to jailbreaking [72] and prompt injections [28, 32, 54, 58, 75]. Defenses that detect attacks [2, 35, 36, 78], or prompt or train LLMs to distin- guish untrusted from trusted inputs [34, 71, 76, 84], remain susceptible to attacks introduced by untrusted context. To address this susceptibility, other systems build upon a dual-LLM pattern [77] that isolates the agent planner model from untrusted inputs [80, 81]. CaMeL [16] strengthens this pattern by allowing the isolated planner to output a limited subset of Python, and utilizing a custom Python interpreter to track untrusted inputs and apply capability-based policies to deny or allow actions. Conseca also draws upon the idea of a quarantined, isolated model, but isolates policy gener- ation rather than planning, thus providing full context for the planner and requiring few changes to existing agents’ planner designs. Conseca explicitly aims to scale security to all contexts by enabling dynamic and fine-grained security policies, and can help reduce user burden in these systems, which assume predefined security configurations or policies. Other work proposes a security analyser as part of agent design, which determines if a trace of agent actions violates a security policy composed of a set of predefined predicates [8]. Conseca proposes the idea of contextual policy generation independent of a specific policy language and enforcer, and can leverage their security analyser. Context-Aware AI.Like prior work, Conseca uses mod- els trained to understand behavioral norms [26, 47]. Other works use these models for appropriateness [41] and in a contextual integrity (CI) framework [5, 7, 9–11, 15, 30, 39, 48, 51, 52, 66, 74]. Conseca follows in the spirit of CI, but enforces contextually appropriate actions (in addition to contextually appropriate data flows) in order to prevent harm. Traditional Application Security.Conseca helps en- able finer-grainedaccess controls and capability restrictions[1, 4, 6, 12–14, 18, 29, 45, 46, 49, 56, 60, 64, 83, 86], which the rise of agent systems makes increasingly necessary. Mobile device permissionstoday offer the best example of how a platform can capture user’s privacy and security pref- erences in a multitude of contexts. However, developers can abuse these permissions and users might over-grant permis- sions in order to use applications [22, 23]. Agents serve even HOTOS ’25, May 14–16, 2025, Banff, AB, CanadaLillian Tsai and Eugene Bagdasarian broader purposes than a mobile app, making it difficult to rely on users to manage permissions for every task; Conseca proposes a more scalable way to set permissions. Other systems foranomaly detectionrely on manual be- havior specification [27] or learn a model of “good” behavior patterns (requiring labeled training data) [31, 50]. While more recent work has investigated LLMs for anomaly detec- tion [68], classic ML or behavioral models avoid the threat of prompt injection. A Conseca policy can be seen as a model of “good” behaviors for the current context, with deterministic enforcement to prevent prompt injections; in Conseca, the “model” is created by a pre-trained LLM rather than learned. Conseca targets agents that perform tasks expressed in natu- ral language in unforeseen contexts, which naturally points towards the use of an LLM (which encodes natural language reasoning) for policy creation. These anomaly detection sys- tems may operate better in orthogonal settings, where events do not include natural language (e.g., syscalls) and follow more constrained and predictable patterns. 7 Discussion Conseca only begins to touch upon the many directions for research in contextual security for agents. First, we can explore ways toimprove contextual policies. While we hypothesize that users will experience far less confirmation fatigue with contextual policies than non-contextual ones, Conseca policies currently do not interact with users (e.g., asking users whether they want to override a Conseca-denied action, or giving users an “undo-log” to audit agent actions or even revert them if possible). User feedback can improve both the policy model’s understanding of preferences and norms, and also improve utility by allowing user-approved tasks to complete. To increase developers’ confidence in policies, we could perhaps automate policy verification using structured rationales and formally mapping them to constraints. Finally, sanitized output languages for tools and context may also increase the scope of trusted context and thus policy quality. Contextual policies can also expand to constrainagent trajectories. Conseca’s policies currently check individual actions, regardless of what actions came prior. However, poli- cies over multiple actions (atrajectory) can prevent the agent from getting “stuck” if it goes down a denied path, and pro- tect against seemingly harmless single actions composing in inappropriate ways (e.g., sending a single email is harm- less, but flooding inboxes is not). Trajectory constraints are challenging because policies must reason about multiple tra- jectories of potentially infinite length, and perhaps predicate action constraints on prior conditions (e.g., “only send an email back if the sender requested a response”). Use of LLMs also adds per-taskoverheadsfor policy gen- eration, which can take seconds depending on the size of the model. LLM efficiency improvements, e.g., distilling a more capable model [82], could reduce this cost, potentially trading off some quality. Alternatively, we could use caching techniques, storing pre-generated or dynamically created policies for common contexts. Lastly, can wecreate contextual policies without LLMs at all? This could improve policy reliability and remove the problem of LLM hallucination [70]. The scope of agent con- texts targeted by Conseca may not always apply: some agent systems may look more similar to existing limited-purpose applications, operate in restricted contexts, or not involve natural language, thus lending themselves to existing access control or anomaly detection techniques used today. In prac- tice, even with the most general agents, developers would likely combine Conseca’s dynamic policies with expertly- written manual policies and/or user confirmation for high- risk scenarios (e.g., unlocking a door). During normal-risk operation, Conseca can provide more fine-grained (but less auditable) security policies while reducing both developer and user burden. 8 Conclusion Conseca imagines an emerging world in which agents per- form human-like tasks, serving different purposes and com- manded by unstructured inputs. To match the scope of agents, our security systems must adapt to contexts beyond what can be manually or statically encoded. 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Copy and organize email attachments into folders in my home directory Newsletter generation: Generate and email newsletters in emails called ’Newsletter’ to the work team by combining data from various logs. Permission checks: Check file and directory permissions and email me a report of security vulnerabilities in an email called ’Permission Check Report’. Failed login attempts: parse authentication logs and send an email notification reporting users that failed to login more than 10 times in an email called ’Failed Login Attempts’. Table A:A checkmark indicates that the agent completes the task the majority of 5 trials under that various security policies. These 20 tasks focus on multi-step, varying-complexity tasks that use one or both of email and filesystem tools.