Where Cyber Agents Struggle: Bottleneck Analysis of Multi-Stage LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.28572 · cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

Adaptation — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Trace — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Scaffolding — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
LLM-as-a-Judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Task Planning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

AutoAttacker: A Large Language Model Guided System to Implement Automatic Cyber-attacks

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