Orbit: A framework for multi-agent security evaluations

A new framework called Orbit helps evaluate the safety of multi-agent AI systems—situations where multiple agents coordinate or compete within shared workflows. LessWrong reports that as frontier models get increasingly deployed in these team setups, from coding assistants spawning subagents to swarms of autonomous researchers, they create new risks: agents can miscommunicate, collude, or manipulate one another. Current safety tools were built for single agents and often fail when extended to multi-agent systems. Orbit, supported by the Cooperative AI Foundation, provides standardized evaluation scenarios and defense mechanisms to test for vulnerabilities like prompt injection, compromised agents, collusion, and misuse across different topologies. The framework is available in early release on GitHub.

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