Summer Yeoreum Jung

Control-Token Injection Suppresses Chain-of-Thought and Defeats Reasoning-Based Oversight in Tool-Using Agents

The safety of a tool-using language model agent is usually treated as a property of the model alone. We give controlled, full-precision evidence that it is instead a joint property of the model and the software that renders its chat template and parses its tool calls, the decoding harness, and that both halves are atta...