Step-Zero Attack: Agent Safety Before Observability

# Step-Zero Attack: Agent Safety Before Observability

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/step-zero-attack-agent-safety-before-observability · AIR-2026-1733 · live

- Lane: Research
- Severity: 1 (Research / proof of concept): Demonstrated attack by researchers with no known real-world exploitation.
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2026-11-03
- AI role: Attack on AI

## Summary

Researchers demonstrate Step-Zero attacks where coding agents suffer harm during initial processing of archives or network responses before content reaches the model context. The evaluation spans multiple harnesses and models.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2026-11-03: Step-Zero Attack: Agent Safety Before Observability (https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01953)

## Sources

- 2026-11-03 arXiv: Step-Zero Attack: Agent Safety Before Observability https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01953

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