Xu-Hu-2002/Toward-Thustworthy-Computer-Use-Agent

Toward Trustworthy Computer-Use Agents: Trust Boundaries, Formal Analysis, Evaluation Gaps, and Governance

This repository hosts the PDF and LaTeX sources of the survey "Toward Trustworthy Computer-Use Agents: Trust Boundaries, Formal Analysis, Evaluation Gaps, and Governance".

Files

File	Description
paper.pdf	Compiled survey PDF
trustworthy_cua_survey.tex	Main LaTeX source
references.bib	Bibliography (180 entries, every entry has a url={} field)
figures/	All figures (PDF + PNG) including Figure 1 (case study), Figure 2 (overview), the taxonomy forest (Figure 4), landscape, timeline, eval and execution diagrams

What this survey covers

A trust-boundary taxonomy for computer-use agents (CUA), tracing the deployment risk-propagation path:

1. External Content — indirect instruction injection, deceptive interface state, grounding drift
2. Action & Permission — authority scoping, step verification, runtime enforcement, harness design
3. Memory & Personalization — stale/misleading memory, privacy leakage, memory poisoning & evaluation gaps
4. Tool, Skill & Ecosystem — skill abstraction, injection at skill boundaries, ecosystem propagation
5. Human Oversight & Governance — pre-execution approval, runtime monitoring, post-execution rollback

Plus a formal analysis of cross-boundary interactions, evaluation-coverage gaps, and future directions.

Companion GitHub repository

A curated, per-section reading list (with direct links to every cited paper) is maintained in the companion GitHub repo:

👉 https://github.com/xu-hu-2002/Towards-Thustworthy-Computer-Use-Agent

Citation

@misc{trustworthycua2026,
  title  = {Toward Trustworthy Computer-Use Agents: Trust Boundaries, Formal Analysis, Evaluation Gaps, and Governance},
  author = {Xu Hu and collaborators},
  year   = {2026},
  howpublished = {Hugging Face Datasets},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Xu-Hu-2002/Toward-Thustworthy-Computer-Use-Agent}
}

License

Content is released under CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted in individual files.