The authors formalized a threat chain in which credentials entering an agent's context can be retained, disclosed, or used for unauthorized actions.
Vault mediation keeps API credentials outside an LLM agent’s context
A production implementation authenticated agent requests without exposing credentials through the tested runtime, filesystem, network, or cloud metadata paths.
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Patrick Kenney · Hadi Ahmadi · Denis Lusson · Donald Nguyen · Gurbinder Gill
Corvic AI Research
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Kenney et al.
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From Corvic AI Research · Part of Agent Security & Attacks, now 46 papers
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Vault-mediated authentication lets LLM agents call APIs without exposing credentials to model context or common execution surfaces, but it cannot ensure correct configuration or authorization.
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