Poster: ClawdGo: Endogenous Security Awareness Training for Autonomous AI Agents
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24020v1
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:09:27 GMT
- Title: Poster: ClawdGo: Endogenous Security Awareness Training for Autonomous AI Agents
- Abstract summary: ClawdGo is a framework for endogenous security awareness training.<n>Agents deployed on platforms such as OpenClaw face prompt injection, memory poisoning, supply-chain attacks, and social engineering.<n>We teach the agent to recognise and reason about threats from the inside, at inference time, with no model modification.
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- License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
- Abstract: Autonomous AI agents deployed on platforms such as OpenClaw face prompt injection, memory poisoning, supply-chain attacks, and social engineering, yet existing defences address only the platform perimeter, leaving the agent's own threat judgement entirely untrained. We present ClawdGo, a framework for endogenous security awareness training: we teach the agent to recognise and reason about threats from the inside, at inference time, with no model modification. Four contributions are introduced: TLDT (Three-Layer Domain Taxonomy) organises 12 trainable dimensions across Self-Defence, Owner-Protection, and Enterprise-Security layers; ASAT (Autonomous Security Awareness Training) is a self-play loop where the agent alternates attacker, defender, and evaluator roles under weakest-first curriculum scheduling; CSMA (Cross-Session Memory Accumulation) compounds skill gains via a four-layer persistent memory architecture and Axiom Crystallisation Promotion (ACP); and SACP (Security Awareness Calibration Problem) formalises the precision-recall tradeoff introduced by endogenous training. Live experiments show weakest-first ASAT raises average TLDT score from 80.9 to 96.9 over 16 sessions, outperforming uniform-random scheduling by 6.5 points and covering 11 of 12 dimensions. CSMA retains the full gain across sessions; cold-start ablation recovers only 2.4 points, leaving a 13.6-point gap. E-mode generates 32 TLDT-conformant scenarios covering all 12 dimensions. SACP is observed when a heavily trained agent classifies a legitimate capability assessment as prompt injection (30/160).
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