No One Architecture Fits All: A Cross-Environment Evaluation of Hierarchical Red Team Agents

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arXiv:2610.00557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous red team agents increasingly stress-test AI-enabled cyber defenses by planning strategy and executing multistage attacks. Reinforcement learning (RL) and large language models (LLMs) offer complementary mechanisms for the planning and execution such agents require, and prior work has combined them in hybrid hierarchies. Yet a given architecture is typically developed and evaluated within a single environment, leaving open whether an ob