# Authorization Drift in LLM Agents: Evaluating Boundary Compliance in Multi-Step Tool Use > Source: > Published: 2026-11-09 09:30:03+00:00 LLM agents can exceed their authorization boundaries while pursuing user goals without an adversary. We formalize this phenomenon as authorization drift across data, tool, scope, and time, and introduce the Authorization Drift Benchmark (ADB): 648 samples across seven domains, each pairing a suffici