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title: "Find new abuse material and grooming · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/new-abuse-detection
id: TNS-26
level: Recommended
applies: user-content
updated: 2026-10-27
build: a2a6bdfed830
tokens: 745
licence: "CC BY 4.0"
licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

# Find new abuse material and grooming beyond known images

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Decisions and appeals](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-27.

- ID: TNS-26
- Level: Recommended
- Chapter: [Decisions and appeals](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals.md)
- Rule: Where children can use the service, add a classifier for abuse images that no hash list knows yet. Add signals for adults who seek out children. Send every hit to a trained person, never to an automatic report.
- Check: A test account set as an adult sends first messages to 10 test minor accounts within one hour. A severity 1 case opens. A classifier test image from the provider opens a case without an automatic report. The privacy notice names the scanning.
- Applies when: The project hosts content that users post.
- How: Hash matching, as in [Report child sexual abuse material and keep the evidence](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/csam-reports.md), finds only copies of known items. New material and grooming need other signals. Look for an adult account that contacts many minors it has no link to, moves the chat to another app or asks for images. Look for gifts and secrecy requests too. Use a classifier from a specialist provider, and score public posts and reported items. Scan private messages only where your lawyer confirms the law of each country allows it, and say so in the privacy notice. Each hit goes to the severity 1 queue, where a person decides and reports as the law requires.

## Sources

- [European Commission guidelines on the protection of minors](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-publishes-guidelines-protection-minors)

## Related rules

- TNS-7 [Report child sexual abuse material and keep the evidence](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/trust-and-safety/decisions-and-appeals/csam-reports.md) in Trust and safety

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