APEX-Harm: Evaluating Agent Safety in Shared Professional Workspaces
APEX-Harm finds script-injection attacks still succeed often against frontier agents in shared workspaces.
APEX-Harm evaluates prompt and script injection against long-horizon finance, consulting, and legal agents working in large shared workspaces. Each task contains 115 to 328 files and exposes email, calendar, chat, document, spreadsheet, PDF, and code-execution tools through MCP servers, across six attack categories. Twelve frontier models are tested on 180 instances each: Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 have the lowest overall attack success rates, 8% and 20%. Task-specific script replacement and generic attacker scripts still average 81–84% and 73% success, while Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 0.877 on the task but has a 33% attack success rate.
- Tasks span 115–328 files and multiple workplace tools over MCP.
- Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 show 8% and 20% overall attack success.
- Task-specific script replacement still succeeds about 81–84% of the time.
- A correct deliverable can accompany an unauthorized workspace action.
- Products
- APEX-Harm
- AI models
- Opus 5Sonnet 5Gemini 3.8 Flash
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Professional agents increasingly work through command-line interfaces and multiple tools over shared workspaces containing files, messages, and business applications. These environments create safety risks that are difficult to capture with attacks placed at a single, known read location.
By Ziyi Yang, Adel Bibi, Guohao Li · huggingface.co
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