arxiv: 2412.14470 · v2 · submitted 2024-12-19 · 💻 cs.CL

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Agent-SafetyBench: Evaluating the Safety of LLM Agents

Zhexin Zhang , Shiyao Cui , Yida Lu , Jingzhuo Zhou , Junxiao Yang , Hongning Wang , Minlie Huang

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keywords LLM agentssafety benchmarkrisk categoriesfailure modesrobustnessrisk awarenessdefense prompts

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No LLM agent scores above 60 percent safety on a benchmark of 2000 test cases.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents Agent-SafetyBench to measure how safely LLM agents behave when interacting with environments and using tools. It runs tests on 16 popular agents using 349 environments and 2000 cases that cover eight types of safety risks and ten common failure modes. None of the agents reaches a safety score of 60 percent or more. The results point to two core problems in current agents: they fail to stay robust when risks appear and they do not recognize those risks in time. The authors release the benchmark publicly to support work on fixing these issues.

Core claim

Current LLM agents show major safety shortcomings. Evaluation on Agent-SafetyBench finds that all 16 tested agents score below 60 percent, exposing a lack of robustness to unsafe situations and a lack of risk awareness. Reliance on defense prompts proves insufficient, indicating that more advanced strategies are needed for safe agent behavior.

What carries the argument

Agent-SafetyBench, which consists of 349 interaction environments and 2000 test cases across 8 safety risk categories and 10 failure modes.

Load-bearing premise

The chosen environments and test cases cover the important safety risks that agents will face in practice.

What would settle it

Demonstrating an agent that scores above 80 percent on the benchmark yet still exhibits unsafe behavior in a real interactive setting would challenge the benchmark's ability to predict safety.

read the original abstract

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents, their integration into interactive environments and tool use introduce new safety challenges beyond those associated with the models themselves. However, the absence of comprehensive benchmarks for evaluating agent safety presents a significant barrier to effective assessment and further improvement. In this paper, we introduce Agent-SafetyBench, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate the safety of LLM agents. Agent-SafetyBench encompasses 349 interaction environments and 2,000 test cases, evaluating 8 categories of safety risks and covering 10 common failure modes frequently encountered in unsafe interactions. Our evaluation of 16 popular LLM agents reveals a concerning result: none of the agents achieves a safety score above 60%. This highlights significant safety challenges in LLM agents and underscores the considerable need for improvement. Through failure mode and helpfulness analysis, we summarize two fundamental safety defects in current LLM agents: lack of robustness and lack of risk awareness. Furthermore, our findings suggest that reliance on defense prompts alone may be insufficient to address these safety issues, emphasizing the need for more advanced and robust strategies. To drive progress in this area, Agent-SafetyBench has been released at https://github.com/thu-coai/Agent-SafetyBench/ to facilitate further research in agent safety evaluation and improvement.

Editorial analysis

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None of the 16 agents clears 60% on this benchmark, which flags real gaps in robustness and risk awareness for tool-using LLMs.

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The key point from this paper is that current LLM agents still have major safety problems, with none of the 16 tested ones clearing 60% on their benchmark. It points to two main issues: agents aren't robust enough and they don't show enough risk awareness. They built Agent-SafetyBench with 349 environments and 2000 test cases across 8 risk categories and 10 failure modes. This is new because prior work mostly looked at the models alone, not at how they behave when using tools in interactive settings. The release of the code and data on GitHub makes it easy for others to use or extend. The analysis of failure modes and the note that defense prompts aren't enough are useful additions. It gives a concrete way to measure progress on agent safety. The soft spot is that the benchmark's coverage of real-world risks isn't strongly validated. There's no mapping to known incidents or user reports, and no mention of how they ensured the test cases are realistic. If the cases are too narrow or artificial, the low scores across the board could be an artifact of the test design rather than a broad problem. The exact way they calculate the safety scores also needs more detail to be fully convincing. This paper is for researchers and developers focused on LLM agents and their safety. It provides a starting point for systematic evaluation that wasn't there before. It deserves peer review. The benchmark is a practical step forward, and feedback can address the validation gaps.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Agent-SafetyBench, a benchmark with 349 interaction environments and 2,000 test cases spanning 8 safety risk categories and 10 failure modes. It evaluates 16 popular LLM agents, finding that none achieves a safety score above 60%, and attributes this to two fundamental defects: lack of robustness and lack of risk awareness. The work concludes that defense prompts alone are insufficient and releases the benchmark at https://github.com/thu-coai/Agent-SafetyBench/ to support further research.

Significance. If the benchmark environments and cases are representative, the uniform sub-60% result provides a clear empirical signal of safety gaps in current LLM agents and motivates development of more robust mechanisms. The open release of the full benchmark, environments, and code is a concrete strength that enables direct reproducibility and extension by the community.

major comments (2)

[§3 and §4] §3 (Benchmark Construction) and §4 (Evaluation): The claim that the 349 environments and 2,000 cases provide representative coverage of real-world risks is load-bearing for interpreting the headline result (no agent >60%). The manuscript provides no external anchoring such as mapping to documented incidents, red-team corpora, or user-reported failures, nor any inter-rater reliability or expert validation of case realism; without this, the uniform low scores could reflect benchmark distribution rather than general agent deficiencies.
[§4.2] §4.2 (Scoring Methodology): The safety score computation (success/failure criteria per environment and aggregation across the 10 failure modes) is described at a high level but lacks explicit decision rules or edge-case handling in the main text. Although the released GitHub code mitigates this, the absence of a self-contained description in the paper makes it difficult to verify the <60% result without external resources.

minor comments (2)

[Table 1] Table 1 or equivalent (risk category breakdown): clarify how the 8 categories and 10 failure modes were derived and whether any overlap or weighting was applied when computing aggregate scores.
[Figure 2] Figure 2 (failure mode analysis): the bar heights and error bars are difficult to read at the provided resolution; consider adding numerical values or a supplementary table.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to improve justification of benchmark coverage and transparency of scoring details.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [§3 and §4] The claim that the 349 environments and 2,000 cases provide representative coverage of real-world risks lacks external anchoring such as mapping to documented incidents, red-team corpora, or expert validation of case realism.

Authors: We agree that stronger external anchoring would bolster the interpretation of the sub-60% results. The 8 risk categories and 10 failure modes were derived from a systematic review of LLM safety literature (including jailbreak studies, tool-use failures, and ethical guidelines). In revision we will add a dedicated subsection in §3 with explicit mappings of each category to cited incidents and prior corpora, plus a brief description of our internal consistency checks during case creation. A full inter-rater reliability study lies beyond the current scope but the added references will clarify that the benchmark distribution is grounded rather than arbitrary. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.2] The safety score computation lacks explicit decision rules or edge-case handling in the main text, making verification difficult without the GitHub code.

Authors: We accept this observation. Section 4.2 currently summarizes the criteria at a high level. We will expand it with concrete decision rules for success/failure per environment type, explicit aggregation across the 10 failure modes, and examples of edge-case handling (e.g., partial tool execution or ambiguous outputs). These additions will render the scoring self-contained while still directing readers to the released code for full reproducibility. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in empirical benchmark construction

full rationale

The paper introduces Agent-SafetyBench as a new evaluation suite with 349 environments and 2,000 test cases across 8 risk categories and 10 failure modes, then reports direct empirical measurements of 16 agents' safety scores. No derivations, equations, fitted parameters, or predictions exist that could reduce to the inputs by construction. The central result (no agent exceeds 60%) is a straightforward aggregate of per-case outcomes on the independently defined test set. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for any derivation chain. Representativeness of the benchmark for real-world risks is a validity assumption rather than a circular step.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on the assumption that the chosen safety categories and failure modes adequately represent agent risks; no free parameters or invented entities are introduced.

axioms (1)

domain assumption The defined 8 safety risk categories and 10 failure modes capture the primary risks in LLM agent interactions.
Invoked in the design of the benchmark environments and test cases.

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