agent/papers/items/2026-2607-05132-when-agents-lie-premeditation-persistence-and-exploitation-in-repeated-games.md

Paper: When Agents Lie: Premeditation, Persistence, and Exploitation in Repeated Games

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type: paper title: "When Agents Lie: Premeditation, Persistence, and Exploitation in Repeated Games" authors: Jerick Shi, Terry Jingcheng Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf, Vincent Conitzer, Zhijing Jin year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05132 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-07-06 updated_at: 2026-07-07 status: queued relevance: high topics:

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

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• cs.CY
• cs.CL related_concepts:

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collection_score: 14 collection_queries: autonomous-agent-llm, llm-agent, planning-agent

One-line Takeaway

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

Why Collected

• matched queries: autonomous-agent-llm, llm-agent, planning-agent
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, agent-safety, planning, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.CY, cs.CL
• collection score: 14

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/2607.05132