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Temporal Persona Shift

🟠 HIGH drift theoretical AVE-2025-0031

· aka: Slow-Burn Persona Attack, Gradual Behaviour Drift

Summary

Attacker slowly changes the agent's personality over many sessions with tiny behavioural nudges. No single message triggers an alert. Over weeks, agent is fully reprogrammed.

Blast Radius

Complete personality replacement. Invisible at per-message level.

Prerequisites

Long-running agent with persistent inter-session context.

Environment

  • Frameworks: LangGraph
  • Models tested: [Available in NAIL SDK]
  • Multi-agent: No
  • Tools required: No
  • Memory required: No

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