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Public story · 2026-03-10 · source-backed
Novel attack class targeting agent efficiency not correctness. Triggers cause excessive reasoning steps, dramatically increasing latency without wrong outputs. Agent appears to work but becomes unusably slow. Extends security concerns to denial-of-service via computational waste. arXiv 2603.08316
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