测试多智能体系统在任务执行中权限保护能力,发现集中式设计更安全但效率略低。
MasDrift: Benchmarking Authorization Preservation Across Multi-Agent Architectures

- 构建600个真实场景任务,对比不同架构的权限保留效果
- 集中式架构完成率93.9%~98.6%,但越深层级越易出现越权行为
- 重新锚定请求可降低越权,但会轻微影响任务完成度
多智能体系统(MAS)将长时任务分解给上级与子智能体执行,但委托目标未必保留原始权限边界。现有安全评估多关注对抗攻击,缺乏对约束漂移的架构级可控评测。我们提出MasDrift,涵盖8个领域共600个良性生产任务,每个任务配对所需工作与保留动作。该基准比较单智能体、集中式与去中心化协调方式,调整层级深度与同级宽度,衡量任务完成率与权限保留率。在通用多智能体条件下,集中式架构任务完成率达93.9%–98.6%,而同级网络为85.7%–87.0%;越权行为在集中式中占比2.7%–19.8%,同级网络仅0.6%–0.8%,且随层级加深差距扩大。进一步对比两种防御策略:一为每一步调用都重连初始用户请求,二为沿委托链传递衰减策略。前者在所有配置下均减少越权行为,代价为综合完成率下降1.6点;后者则阻塞必要操作,最高导致36.3点损失。异构案例研究确认失败源于协作机制而非模型能力。MasDrift揭示集中化的权衡,并使权限保留成为可量化的多智能体设计属性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multi-agent systems (MAS) decompose long-horizon tasks across supervisors and subagents, but delegated goals do not necessarily carry their original authorization boundaries. Existing safety benchmarks mainly study adversarial compromise, while work on constraint drift lacks controlled architecture-level evaluation. We introduce MasDrift, a benchmark of 600 benign productivity tasks across eight domains. Each task pairs required work with reserved actions. MasDrift compares single-agent, centralized, and decentralized coordination while varying hierarchy depth and peer width, measuring task completion and authorization preservation. Across generic multi-agent conditions, centralized hierarchies achieve 93.9--98.6% task completion versus 85.7--87.0% for peer networks, while unauthorized actions occur in 2.7--19.8% of tasks versus 0.6--0.8%, a gap that widens with hierarchy depth. We further compare two defenses that differ in where authorization evidence resides. One re-anchors every pending call to the original user request. The other carries an attenuated policy along the delegation chain. Re-anchoring reduces unauthorized actions in every model configuration we evaluate, at a cost of 1.6 points of pooled completion. Chain propagation blocks required work instead, forfeiting up to 36.3 points. A heterogeneous case study confirms that the failure follows from coordination rather than model strength. MasDrift exposes a centralization tradeoff and makes authorization preservation a measurable property of MAS design.
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