arxivcs.AIcs.CRcs.LG2026-07-22
Know Your Agent: Reconnaissance-Driven Pentesting of AI Agents
Or Zion Eliav, Eyal Lenga, Shir Bernstien, Yisroel Mirsky
Traditional pentesting uses reconnaissance at each step to uncover unseen weaknesses, build stronger attacks, and advance the objective; we argue that AI agents require the same treatment. We formalize agent reconnaissance by modeling the process and identifying the knowledge ass…