CAVEAT: Towards Robust Computer-Use Agents in Incentive-Misaligned Environments

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arXiv:2609.27273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) increasingly act on behalf of users online. What happens when the environments they operate in have incentives that do not align with the user's? In online marketplaces, for example, platforms may favor some products over others, potentially steering agents away from the user's objective. Existing CUA benchmarks cover cooperative settings or explicit attacks, but do not test whether agents preserve user objectives when