RedAct: Redacting Agent Capability Traces for Procedural Skill Protection
Summary
Introduces RedAct, a framework to protect agent traces from procedural skill leakage by selectively redacting sensitive details while preserving audit evidence, along with CapTraceBench for evaluation.
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Source: https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.10813 π‘οΈRedAct: Protecting agent traces from procedural skill leakage
What if the traces released for transparency and debugging also become tutorials for copying an agentβs private skills? π
Agent traces can reveal formulas, thresholds, tool choices, validation routines, and recovery strategies β enough for downstream agents to reconstruct reusable procedures.
To study this risk, we introduceCapTraceBench:
π§©75long-horizon tasks π οΈ154curated skills π7professional domains π€ Multiple agent backends and trace-reuse attacks
We then proposeRedAct, a protected trace-release framework that:
π locates sensitive procedural details βοΈ selectively rewrites them β preserves audit-critical evidence 𧬠embeds behavioral watermarks for provenance
Across multiple reuse settings, raw traces yield44.7β67.1% normalized skill transfer. RedAct pushes itbelow the no-skill baseline, while preserving91.0β96.6% of audit evidence.
Its standalone watermarks further achieve93.6β100.0% detectionwith at most1.9% false alarms. π
Agent traces are not just logs β they are security interfaces.
π Project:https://xushuwenn.github.io/RedAct_Website/ π» Code:https://github.com/XuShuwenn/RedAct π Paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10813
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