active defense and adversarial agents: service sandbagging

in previous posts we have looked at guardrail triggers , token burn , hostname beacons , malicious skills , context bombs , and exploding search space . this time: service sandbagging. active defense is planting traps that force an agent to reveal itself or change the economics of its run. sandbagging does both by abusing how agent harnesses treat tool timeouts and protocol errors. honeypots have…