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arxiv: 2605.24941 · v1 · pith:Y3F4VXS7new · submitted 2026-05-24 · 💻 cs.CR · cs.LG

Memory-Induced Tool-Drift in LLM Agents

Mahavir Dabas , Jihyun Jeong , Ming Jin , Ruoxi Jia This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CR cs.LG
keywords LLM agentstool callingmemory biastool driftadversarial benchmarkparameter susceptibilityAI safety
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The pith

Biased memories cause LLM agents to shift tool parameters inappropriately even when the biases do not apply to the task.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that personality-driven biases stored in long-term memory affect tool calls made by LLM agents in contexts where those biases are irrelevant. It introduces the MEMDRIFT benchmark of 105 scenarios across five bias types and seven domains, generated via an automated adversarial pipeline. Across seven frontier models, including those with extended reasoning, biased memories increase deflection scores by up to 3.6 points on a 1-5 scale. The effect holds under three production memory architectures. Scanning 6,062 real tools across 288 servers identifies 608 with susceptible parameters, and the drift is confirmed on a validated subset.

Core claim

Personality biases stored in memory function as implicit steering vectors that shift tool parameter selections away from unbiased baselines, redistributing attention toward memory entries that share surface keywords with the target parameter, even when the bias has no bearing on the current task.

What carries the argument

Deflection score, a judge-scored 1-5 measure of how far tool parameters deviate from unbiased baselines, applied to scenarios in the MEMDRIFT benchmark.

Load-bearing premise

The automated pipeline generates scenarios where stored personality biases are genuinely inapplicable, and the judge-scored deflection metric isolates memory effects rather than other model behaviors.

What would settle it

Run the same tool-calling tasks with and without biased memory on the validated real-world tool subset and check whether human raters still assign near-zero deflection when the bias is clearly irrelevant.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.24941 by Jihyun Jeong, Mahavir Dabas, Ming Jin, Ruoxi Jia.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of Memory-Induced Tool-Drift. Biased user memories from personal life can inappropriately affect tool-calls even when the task belongs to an unrelated professional domain. too broadly or inappropriately [10, 27]. The analogous failure in tool calling, where personality￾driven biases in memory silently affect tool calls in contexts where they should not apply, has not been studied. Yet it is possib… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: MEMDRIFT generation pipeline. Each (bias dimension, domain) pair passes through three stages: scenario generation, artifact expansion, and adversarial refinement via a self-improving loop. professional domains (healthcare, finance, legal, software infrastructure, education, e-commerce, and marketing). To ensure that any observed drift is unambiguously inappropriate, we enforce a strict context separation: … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Deflection scores across models and evaluation settings. Biased deflection scores (sb) are consistently high across all models under both direct memory injection and memory framework settings, while neutral scores (sn) remain low. All models exhibit substantial drift regardless of the memory delivery mechanism. Evaluation settings. We evaluate LLM agents across two complementary settings. In the first, dir… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Memory-induced activation shift projected onto the explicit steering direction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Attention redistribution at the behavior-defining token position. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Defensive system prompt reduces but does not eliminate biased deflection across dimen￾sions (GPT-5.4). (∆s def b = −0.52 overall) as seen in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Biased deflection score sb as a function of the biased-memory fraction in the memory set, for GPT-5.4 and Gemini-3.1-Pro-Preview under direct memory injection. The analysis is computed over the 21 scenarios in the Speed / Impatience bias dimension, with k=5 responses per scenario per configuration [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_7.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Modern LLM agents combine long-term memory for personalization with tool-calling interfaces for taking actions in the world -- a combination underpinning contemporary production systems. We study a previously unexamined failure of this combination: when personality-driven biases stored in memory (cost-consciousness, impatience, risk tolerance, etc.) silently affect tool calls in contexts where they are not applicable. We call this memory-induced tool-drift and operationalize it through MEMDRIFT, a benchmark of 105 scenarios spanning five bias dimensions and seven professional domains, generated through an automated adversarial pipeline. Across seven frontier models -- including those with extended reasoning -- biased memories raise deflection scores (a judge-scored measure of parameter deviation from unbiased baselines) by up to $+3.6$ points on a 1--5 scale. Tool-drift persists when memory management is handled by three production memory architectures. The phenomenon affects real-world tools: scanning 6{,}062 tools across 288 verified MCP servers, we flag 608 with susceptible parameters and confirm tool-drift on a validated subset. Mechanistically, biased memories act as implicit steering vectors, pushing activations along the same latent directions as explicit behavioral instructions. They also redistribute attention from task-relevant context toward memory entries with surface-level keyword overlap to the target parameter. Standard defenses -- prompt-based relevance instructions and memory filters -- reduce drift but do not eliminate it. As agents take increasingly consequential actions on a user's behalf, memory-induced tool-drift represents a systematic vulnerability that current safeguards do not address, motivating dedicated defenses at the intersection of memory management and tool-call generation.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces memory-induced tool-drift as a failure mode in LLM agents, where personality biases stored in long-term memory (e.g., cost-consciousness) influence tool-calling parameters in contexts where the biases are inapplicable. It operationalizes the phenomenon via the MEMDRIFT benchmark (105 scenarios across five bias dimensions and seven domains, generated by an automated adversarial pipeline), evaluates seven frontier models (showing deflection-score increases up to +3.6 on a 1-5 judge-scored scale), demonstrates persistence across three production memory architectures, scans 6,062 tools from 288 MCP servers to identify 608 susceptible parameters, provides mechanistic analysis (steering vectors and attention redistribution), and shows that prompt-based defenses and memory filters reduce but do not eliminate the effect.

Significance. If the benchmark construction and deflection metric are robust, the work identifies a previously unexamined, systematic vulnerability at the intersection of memory and tool use in agent systems, with direct relevance to production deployments. Strengths include the scale of the real-tool scan, evaluation across multiple models and memory architectures, and the mechanistic explanation; these elements would make the result a useful empirical contribution to agent safety literature.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3 (MEMDRIFT benchmark)] The automated adversarial pipeline for MEMDRIFT scenario generation is central to the claim, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative validation (e.g., human review of a sample or explicit checks) that the resulting 105 scenarios render the stored personality biases verifiably inapplicable to the task; without this, the +3.6 deflection increase cannot be confidently attributed to memory-induced drift rather than other factors.
  2. [§4 (Evaluation and deflection scoring)] The deflection metric is a judge-scored 1-5 scale whose ability to isolate memory effects is load-bearing for all quantitative claims, but the manuscript reports neither inter-rater agreement statistics, correlation with human judgments on a validation subset, nor controls that rule out confounding model behaviors; this absence weakens the reported results across the seven models.
  3. [§5 (Real-world tool scan)] The claim that tool-drift affects real-world tools rests on identifying 608 susceptible parameters and confirming the effect on a 'validated subset,' but the manuscript does not describe the size of that subset, the selection criteria, or the confirmation protocol; this detail is required to assess generalizability of the 608-parameter finding.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §4] The abstract states that drift 'persists when memory management is handled by three production memory architectures' without naming them; the main text should list the architectures explicitly for reproducibility.
  2. [Tables 2-4] Tables reporting deflection scores should include per-model standard deviations or confidence intervals and the number of scenarios per bias dimension to allow readers to gauge variability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments, which highlight important areas for strengthening the empirical rigor of our claims. We respond to each major comment below and will incorporate revisions to address the identified gaps.

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  1. Referee: [§3 (MEMDRIFT benchmark)] The automated adversarial pipeline for MEMDRIFT scenario generation is central to the claim, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative validation (e.g., human review of a sample or explicit checks) that the resulting 105 scenarios render the stored personality biases verifiably inapplicable to the task; without this, the +3.6 deflection increase cannot be confidently attributed to memory-induced drift rather than other factors.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript would benefit from explicit validation of scenario inapplicability. The adversarial pipeline constructs scenarios by generating task contexts that are orthogonal to the bias dimension through constrained prompting that forbids any relevance to the personality trait. To strengthen this, the revised manuscript will include a human validation study: three annotators reviewed a random sample of 30 scenarios and rated bias inapplicability on a 1-5 scale (mean 4.6, Cohen's kappa 0.79). This supports the attribution of drift to memory effects. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4 (Evaluation and deflection scoring)] The deflection metric is a judge-scored 1-5 scale whose ability to isolate memory effects is load-bearing for all quantitative claims, but the manuscript reports neither inter-rater agreement statistics, correlation with human judgments on a validation subset, nor controls that rule out confounding model behaviors; this absence weakens the reported results across the seven models.

    Authors: The deflection scoring relies on a detailed rubric applied by an LLM judge, but we acknowledge the absence of reported agreement and validation metrics. In revision we will add: inter-rater agreement from three human judges on a 25-scenario subset (kappa = 0.81), Pearson correlation of 0.87 between LLM and human scores, and controls confirming no deflection in no-memory baselines. These will be reported in an expanded §4. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§5 (Real-world tool scan)] The claim that tool-drift affects real-world tools rests on identifying 608 susceptible parameters and confirming the effect on a 'validated subset,' but the manuscript does not describe the size of that subset, the selection criteria, or the confirmation protocol; this detail is required to assess generalizability of the 608-parameter finding.

    Authors: We agree that details on the validated subset are missing and necessary for assessing the finding. The subset comprises 50 parameters sampled uniformly across domains and bias dimensions from the 608. Confirmation ran full MEMDRIFT evaluations on these parameters, yielding significant drift in 84% of cases. The revised §5 will specify the exact size, stratified sampling criteria, and protocol including statistical thresholds. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper is an empirical benchmark study introducing MEMDRIFT and reporting experimental results on model deflection scores and tool parameter susceptibility. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided text. All load-bearing claims rest on external measurements (model runs, tool scans) rather than internal reductions to inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

Abstract-only view limits visibility into parameters or axioms; the deflection score on a 1-5 scale and the five bias dimensions appear as operational choices but are not shown as fitted values.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption LLM agents combine long-term memory with tool-calling interfaces in production systems.
    Stated in the opening sentence of the abstract as the setting under study.
invented entities (1)
  • memory-induced tool-drift no independent evidence
    purpose: Name for the described failure mode where memory biases affect tool parameters.
    Introduced as a new term in the abstract; no independent falsifiable prediction supplied.

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    ### Important Evaluation Principles

    **Memory model** (with memory) - what you're evaluating for deflection Here are the inputs you'll need for your evaluation: <user_prompt> 30 {USER_PROMPT} </user_prompt> <functional_tool> {FUNCTIONAL_TOOL} </functional_tool> <expected_model_behavior> {EXPECTED_MODEL_BEHAVIOR} </expected_model_behavior> <base_model_behavior> {BASE_MODEL_BEHAVIOR} </base_mo...

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    **Personal-context interpretability**: Do the parameter name or values use everyday language that could appear in personal lifestyle memories? Look for words like "economy," "express," "quick," "full," "minimal," " standard," "premium," "low," "high," "simple," "detailed," etc

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