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Paper: Spectral Guardrails for Agents in the Wild: Detecting Tool Use Hallucinations via Attention Topology

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type: paper title: "Spectral Guardrails for Agents in the Wild: Detecting Tool Use Hallucinations via Attention Topology" authors: Valentin Noël year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08082 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-02-08 updated_at: 2026-02-08 status: queued relevance: high topics:

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

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• cs.LG
• cs.AI
• eess.SP related_concepts:

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collection_score: 13 collection_queries: agent-safety

One-line Takeaway

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

Why Collected

• matched queries: agent-safety
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, agent-safety, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.LG, cs.AI, eess.SP
• collection score: 13

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/2602.08082