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Anthropic's commerce-agents delegate contract bypassed by researcher

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Anthropic's commerce-agents framework has a documented security contract stating that delegates cannot write, present, or invoke other delegates. However, a security researcher demonstrated that by manipulating the delegate's authority and placing a malicious delegate in the same slot, the contract could be bypassed. This allowed the malicious delegate to stage changes, present them to the operator, and call a second delegate, which was refused on a subsequent run due to the imposed authority restrictions. The researcher highlighted that the framework's security relies on the specific shape and declared tools of a delegate, rather than a universally enforced contract. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential vulnerabilities in agent frameworks where security relies on delegate shape rather than strict contract enforcement.

RANK_REASON Security researcher demonstrates a bypass of a documented security contract in Anthropic's commerce-agents framework.

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Anthropic's commerce-agents delegate contract bypassed by researcher

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Security researcher demonstrates a bypass of a documented security contract in Anthropic's commerce-agents framework.
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  1. dev.to — Anthropic tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Rafael Asor ·

    A delegate cannot write, present, or invoke other delegates. I ran that sentence as authority.

    <p>Anthropic's <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/commerce-agents" rel="noopener noreferrer">commerce-agents</a> states its delegate contract in a docstring: a delegate "cannot write, present, or invoke other delegates". I wrote the delegate that sentence warns about, put it …

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