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Paper: When the Manual Lies: A Realistic Benchmark to Evaluate MCP Poisoning Attacks for LLM Agents

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type: paper title: "When the Manual Lies: A Realistic Benchmark to Evaluate MCP Poisoning Attacks for LLM Agents" authors: Shi Liu, Xuehai Tang, Xikang Yang, Liang Lin, Biyu Zhou, Wenjie Xiao, Wantao Liu year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24069 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-05-22 updated_at: 2026-05-22 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• agent-evaluation
• agent-safety
• planning
• tool-use methods:

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• cs.CR
• cs.AI related_concepts:

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collection_score: 19 collection_queries: planning-agent

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: planning-agent
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, agent-safety, planning, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.CR, cs.AI
• collection score: 19

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24069