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We present CXSearch, an automated system for discovering inputs on which a target language model fails to satisfy a stated specification. CXSearch frames failure discovery as constrained search in a continuous embedding space, with a learned acceptance predicate that rewards inputs producing both diverse and severe failures.

We survey 217 documented sandbox escape attempts collected from public bug bounties, internal red-team reports, and Common Weakness Enumeration filings between 2023 and 2026 that target coding agents — LLM-driven systems that author and execute code on a user's behalf. We taxonomize attempts into seven mechanism classes, characterize their prevalence over time, and report success rates against eight representative sandbox configurations.