The Agent Incident Registry: Toward Preventing Repeated AI Agent FailuresThe Agent Incident Registry: Toward Preventing Repeated AI Agent Failures

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

[Submitted on 10 Sep 2026]

Title:The Agent Incident Registry: Toward Preventing Repeated AI Agent Failures

View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:AI agents increasingly act through tools and delegated authority, but general incident repositories rarely capture the mechanisms needed to compare public failures with agent-security evaluations. We present the Agent Incident Registry (AIR), a source-linked catalog containing \N{} records of agent-related events disclosed from \Yfirst{} through \Ylast{}. Each record includes supporting evidence, a stable identifier, and missingness-aware labels for causal role, disclosure class, mechanism, and outcome. Among the \Nprimary{} generative-system records in which the agent acted, \Rprimary{} involved realized harm (\Pprimary\%). Realized outcomes concentrate in in-the-wild and safety-failure records, while responsible disclosures and research demonstrations are overwhelmingly demonstrated; the aggregate share therefore characterizes collection composition rather than deployment risk. After initial curation, a second human reviewer checked all \N{} records and their existing labels for completeness and correctness. In a deployment-analogue audit, InjecAgent's \NInjecAgentCases{} cases occupy three of AIR's twelve surfaces and are all attacker-triggered, whereas AIR contains \Nsafety{} no-adversary safety failures. AIR supports source-grounded case retrieval and evaluation-scope auditing, not failure-rate or control-efficacy estimation.

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