Direct Agent Communication
Sub-technique of AML.T0118 Autonomous AI Agent Communication
Description
Autonomous AI agents may communicate directly through agent-to-agent, sub-agent, or orchestrator interfaces. An agent may provide another agent with operational context, discoveries, objectives, tasking, capabilities, credentials, or constraints, and may receive status, findings, or completed work in response.
Direct communication may include delegation when the sending agent formulates or selects an objective or subtask and the recipient retains meaningful discretion over how to perform it. Direct exchanges may also report discoveries, request independent validation, synchronize activity, transfer capabilities, or return findings without delegating a new task.
- ATLAS ID
- AML.T0118.001
- Maturity
- RealizedUsed by real adversaries against AI systems in the wild.
- Platforms
- Agentic AIEnterprise
Mitigations
ATLAS 2026.09 lists no mitigation for this technique; see the parent technique.