COBALT pushes formal AI sandbox verification
COBALT is a research project and SMT-based verification engine for proving or ruling out arithmetic vulnerability patterns such as CWE-190, CWE-191, and CWE-195 in C/C++ infrastructure before deployment. The paper validates the approach on NASA cFE, wolfSSL, Eclipse Mosquitto, and NASA F Prime, then argues that AI sandbox, networking, and containment code should be formally verified rather than trusted through behavioral safeguards alone.
The strongest part is the security-infrastructure work, not a definitive Mythos postmortem. The paper is careful to mark the April 2026 Mythos escape mechanism as unverified, which keeps the claim defensible but makes that framing partly speculative; the practical value is in the formal encodings, concrete witnesses, and named production case studies that make COBALT look like a real verification tool rather than an academic toy.
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