Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle

Google shares a new workshop report, produced with more than 50 academic and industry leaders at the Contextual Agent Privacy and Security (CAPS) Workshop held in late 2025 in New York City, on foundational privacy and security challenges facing autonomous agents. The report grounds agent privacy and security in the theory of Contextual Integrity, extending it to contextual security, and advocates a contextual policy engine within a supervisor layer alongside system-level sandboxing, model-level reasoning, user-centric controls, multi-agent guardrails, and ecosystem governance. It also calls for standardized multi-agent benchmarks and "Agent Gym" sandboxes, and invites the broader research community to collaborate.