Chanwoo Kim

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2026

Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) has been widely adopted to improve LLM-based evaluation by prompting multiple agents to negotiate and reach a consensus. However, for subjective rubric-based scoring, inter-agent agreement does not guarantee alignment with human judgments. In this paper, we compare a single-judge baseline against a consensus-based MAD protocol on subjective evaluation tasks and design three ablations to isolate the impact of role prompting, multi-round interaction, and explicit score sharing. Evaluations across six LLMs show that the single-judge baseline achieves the strongest human alignment on average across six judge models, whereas MAD shows degradation in human alignment on both tasks. Our ablations demonstrate that this performance drop stems primarily from asymmetric role prompting rather than the interaction itself. Specifically, assigning a strict judge role introduces a systematic downward bias that the consensus process fails to correct. The central finding is that this bias reflects strict-stance dominance beyond averaging: the consensus score falls well beyond the arithmetic midpoint of the standalone strict and lenient conditions, rather than averaging them out. Removing role asymmetry (Symmetric MAD) largely recovers baseline performance, while masking peer scores widens inter-agent disagreement on average and worsens average human alignment. These findings demonstrate that multi-agent consensus can enforce artificial agreement at the expense of true human alignment, revealing a structural limitation in consensus-style, role-specialized MAD protocols for subjective scoring.
LLM-based agent systems increasingly adopt skill-based architectures to reduce repetitive reasoning costs and improve stable, efficient task execution. Recent studies propose self-evolving agents that autonomously generate, refine, and reuse skills from past experiences to enable continuous capability evolution. However, autonomous skill evolution introduces a new attack surface in which malicious capabilities are generated, stored, and reused as legitimate skills. In this paper, we define EvoSkill Injection as a threat model targeting the autonomous skill generation and evolution pipeline of self-evolving agents. We further propose SARGE (Red-teaming Autonomous Skill Generation and Evolution in self-evolving agents), a red-teaming framework for evaluating this threat model through iterative generation, escalation, and reinforcement interactions. To support our framework, we construct EvoSkillBench, a benchmark dataset of malicious interaction trajectories for inducing malicious skill formation in self-evolving agents, and introduce EvoSkillSafetyBench to assess whether injected malicious skills are retrieved and activated as harmful behaviors during downstream task execution. Our evaluation shows that SARGE induces malicious skill formation and that injected skills are persistently stored and repeatedly activated, highlighting the risk of persistent capability corruption.