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  1. A Society of Researchers: Designing Institutions for Populations of Autonomous Research Agents

    Oct 7, 2026Ali Asaria, Deep Gandhi, Tony SalomoneAutonomous Research AgentsMulti-Agent Systems

    Transformer Lab Canada

  2. The Harness as the Only Mutable Surface: Compliance-Bounded Self-Evolution of LLM Agents in Credit Pipelines, with a Measured Admission Gate

    Oct 7, 2026Ravil AkhtyamovLLM Agent Self-ImprovementAI Agent Governance

    Digital Economy Lab

  3. Process Constitutions and Process Stewards: Towards the Next Generation of BPM for Agentic Organizations

    Oct 5, 2026Amin Jalali, Majid RafieiAgentic WorkflowsAI Agent Governance

    Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden · SAP Signavio, Berlin, Germany

  4. Cybernetic and Epistemic: A Missing Vocabulary for Trustworthy Agentic Delegation

    Oct 1, 2026Jérémie LumbrosoAI AccountabilityAgentic Code Generation

    University of Pennsylvania

  5. Trust Is Not a Score: Runtime Assurance Contracts for High-Risk AI Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Serhii ZabolotniiAI Agent SafetyRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Cherkasy State Business College, Cherkasy, Ukraine · State Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment Testing and Certification, Cherkasy, Ukraine · healthPrecision, New York, NY, USA

  6. Deny Without Disabling: Authorization-Paired Evaluation and Control for Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 30, 2026Yunbei Zhang, Saiyue Lyu, Janet Wang +4Multi-Agent CollaborationInformation Flow Control

    Tulane University · University of British Columbia · Independent Researcher +1

  7. PANDA: A Decentralized Architecture with Flexible Orchestration for Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 29, 2026Matthew D. Laws, Cristina Nita-RotaruMulti-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Orchestration

    Khoury College of Computer Sciences Northeastern University

  8. Janus: Evidence-Before-Effect Sagas and Offline-Verifiable Provenance for Agentic LLMs

    Sep 29, 2026Mustafa ArslanLLM AuditingAI Agent Governance

    Independent Researcher Istanbul, Türkiye

  9. DGF-Bench: A Benchmark for Simulating and Auditing Deception Against Multi-Agent Governance Boards

    Sep 28, 2026Jeremy CanaleAI Agent AuditingAI Agent Security Benchmarks

  10. Evaluating Bounded Autonomy in Regulated Agentic AI: A Diagnostic Harness with Constitutional Rewards, Escalation Labels, and Runtime Governance

    Sep 28, 2026Dipankar SarkarLLM GuardrailsAI Agent Evaluation

    Skelf Research

  11. Subjects, Not Authors: The Authorship Hazard in Agentic Dataspaces

    Sep 24, 2026Seungho Lee, Changbin LeeRuntime Enforcement for AI AgentsAI Agent Governance

    Korea Trade Network (KTNET), Seoul, Republic of Korea

  12. The Last Human Gate: Forward Deployed Engineering for Governance Automation

    Sep 24, 2026Jeremy CanaleAI Agent GovernanceAI Governance

  13. Control the Harness, Control the Cost: Routing and Governing AI Coding Agents in the Enterprise

    Sep 24, 2026Arian Abbasi, Alan Aqrawi, Ted KwartlerTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsCoding Agents

    Accenture Responsible AI · Accenture Americas Advanced AI Practice · Harvard Extension School, Harvard University

  14. Progressive Skill Discovery as Access Control for Tool-Using LLM Agents: Structural Governance through Role-Scoped Capability Delivery

    Sep 23, 2026Michael Stettler, Benjamin Girardet, Jonas Canton +1LLM Agent Skill LearningAI Agent Governance

    Skilder

  15. Compliant with Local Controls, Collectively Discriminatory. A Governance Architecture for Multi-Agent AI in Regulated Finance

    Sep 23, 2026Jose Manuel de la Chica Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Vera Diaz, Pablo Delgado RomeroFinancial ServicesAlgorithmic Fairness

    Santander AI Lab, Grupo Santander, Madrid, Spain

  16. Multi-Agent AI Architecture for Regulated Insurers: A generic AI framework under Solvency II and the AI Act in Austria and Germany

    Sep 23, 2026Walter KurzMulti-Agent OrchestrationMulti-Agent Systems

    Swissi Institute for AI

  17. Compliant AI Infrastructure for Regulated Finance: A tiered multi-agent framework with DLT audit trails for financial operations in DACH

    Sep 23, 2026Walter Kurz, Reinhard MaggAI Agent AuditingRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Swissi Institute for AI

  18. The Disciplinary Language Transfer Problem: How Psychological Vocabulary Produces Governance Failures in AI Agent Deployment

    Sep 22, 2026Kymberly Lasser-Chere, Tyler Akidau, Marc MillstoneAI AccountabilityAI Agent Auditing

    Coastal Waters Healing Center, Surf City, NC, USA · Redpanda, Seattle, WA, USA

  19. Governed AI-Agent Coordination for Dementia Care: Architecture, Safety Contracts, and Evidence-Derived Workflow Verification

    Sep 22, 2026Francesca Medda, Hui GongAI Agent ReliabilityHealthcare

    UCL Institute of Finance and Technology University College London London, United Kingdom

  20. The Law of Stop: Interruptibility, Injunctions, and the Governance of Agentic AI

    Sep 19, 2026Oren PerezAI Agent GovernanceAI Governance

    Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law

  21. A Dual-Process Perspective on Nudge Susceptibility in LLM-Based GUI Agents

    Sep 17, 2026Haya Halimeh, Sascha Kaltenpoth, Kevin Bösch +1GUI AgentsAgentic Reasoning

    Information Systems, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany.

  22. PAPC: Platform Mediation for Privacy-Propagation Externalities in AI-Mediated Workflows

    Sep 16, 2026Tao Huang, Guosen Wu, Chen Hou +1AI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent System Security

  23. Position: It is Time to Virtualize Foundation Models with a Self-evolving Operating System Layer

    Sep 16, 2026Suparna Bhattacharya, Tarun Kumar, Cong Xu +7AI Agent Governance

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory

  24. Whom Do AI Agents Work For? Role Assignment Induces Sponsorship Bias in LLM Recommenders

    Sep 16, 2026Davood Wadi, Yu MaLanguage Model Bias EvaluationLarge Language Model-Based Recommendation

    Desautels Faculty of Management McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  25. After the Party: Growth, Governance, and Security Scanning in the OpenClaw Agent Skill Ecosystem

    Sep 15, 2026Yunpeng Xiong, Ting ZhangAI Agent GovernanceAgent Skill Security Auditing

    Monash University, Australia

  26. Legislating World-Model-Based Planning with Legal Reasoning

    Sep 14, 2026Dylan Waldner, Yiannis Kantaros, Guido Governatori +2Logical ReasoningRobot Task Planning

    Cognizant AI Lab, USA · Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University, USA · School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Australia +1

  27. ANASSA: An Agentic AI Orchestration Framework for Spatial Intelligence

    Sep 13, 2026Constantinos Papantoniou, Brian HiltonLLM Agent OrchestrationGeospatial Reasoning

    Anassa.ai USA · Research Scientist USA

  28. Autonomy, Social Norms, and Alignment: Towards a Developmental Framework for Autonomous Artificial Agents

    Sep 12, 2026Marica Notte, Ludovica Marinucci, Vieri Giuliano SantucciAI AlignmentAI Agent Governance

    Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR) · Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity (CID Ethics)

  29. terms.txt: A Consent and Compensation Protocol for Agentic Web Access

    Sep 12, 2026Rajarshi ChowdhuryAI Agent GovernanceWeb Agents

    independent researcher

  30. Kernel-Managed Shared Memory for System-Wide Personalization

    Sep 9, 2026Ryan Lum, Yongfeng ZhangMulti-Agent LLM SystemsAI Agent Governance

    Department of Computer Science Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ 08854

  31. From Event Logs to Governed Action: A BlueSky Agenda for Agentic Process Mining

    Sep 7, 2026Yiyuan Yang, Zheshun Wu, Yong Chu +3Process MiningAgentic Workflows

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · University of Glasgow, United Kingdom +2

  32. PRIMUS: Identity, Governance, and Verification for Multi-Agent Federations

    Sep 7, 2026Sasank Annapureddy, Anjaneya Prasad ThamataniLLM Agent VerificationMulti-Agent Consensus

  33. When Intelligence Becomes Agency: A Theory of Governed, Proactive Agency for Symbiotic AI Systems

    Sep 7, 2026João Dias FerreiraAgent EvaluationProactive Assistance

    Wyrde AI

  34. A Case Study on Emergent Cheating and Whistleblowing in Autonomous Research Swarms

    Sep 3, 2026Davide Paglieri, Logan Cross, Tim Genewein +3AI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent System Security

    Google DeepMind

  35. The Civilization Framework: Sovereign-Anchored Communication Between Personal Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 3, 2026Guangjun LiuAgent Communication ProtocolsAI Agent Governance

    New York University

  36. MasterControl Seventeen Every Time

    Sep 2, 2026MasterControl AI LabLLM Agent EvaluationText-to-SQL

    MasterControl AI Lab

  37. Tempting the Agent: The Economics of Reputation without Persistent Identity in AI Agent Markets

    Sep 2, 2026Federico Gatta, Manuel Naviglio, Francesco TarantelliAgent ReliabilityAI Agent Governance

    Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy · Università di Bologna, Italy

  38. Bonded Recourse for Smart-Contract Settlement of Compensable Agent Side Effects

    Sep 1, 2026Laurent Bindschaedler, Quentin Botha, Christoph SiebenbrunnerAlgorithmic AccountabilityAI Agent Governance

    Max Planck Institute for Software Systems · Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business

  39. Delegation Without Trust: An Empirical Gap Analysis of Identity, Authorization, and Runtime Governance in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    Aug 31, 2026Panduranga Sai Varma Dantuluri, Jyotirmoy SundiMulti-Agent LLM SystemsLLM Agent Security

    VotalAI

  40. The Hermon Moment: AI Self-Transcendence and Its Human Narration

    Aug 31, 2026Alexei GrinbaumAI Agent GovernanceEmergent Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems

    CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

  41. Which Rules Matter Now? Policy-Centroid Routing Before an Intelligent System Acts

    Aug 31, 2026Thomson D. NguyAI Agent Governance

    Radiant Institute for Manifold Studies

  42. Persona-Execution Separation: An Architecture Pattern for Evolving LLM Agents under Execution Audit

    Aug 27, 2026Yisen XiLLM Agent SecurityRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Independent Researcher, Beijing, China.

  43. OpenAgentFlow: Enabling System-Wide Safety Boundaries for Heterogeneous AI Agent Fleets

    Aug 14, 2026Dongsheng Chen, Xiangyu Zhao, Xin Yao +1AI Agent SafetyAI Agent Governance

    Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, China · City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China · Lingnan University Hong Kong, China

  44. Correct Is Not Governed: Provenance Integrity in Agentic Workflows

    Aug 13, 2026Jesus SalasData ProvenanceAlgorithmic Auditing

    Independent Researcher · The author is employed by Microsoft.

  45. GUIDE: Governed Unified Intelligence for Document-to-Artifact Generation in Enterprise Settings

    Aug 12, 2026Shivali Dalmia, Sumukha Thoppanahalli, Mohammadreza Sediqin +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsDocument Information Extraction

    Centific Research Washington, USA

  46. No One to Blame: A Framework of Constitutive AI Unaccountability

    Aug 12, 2026Long Hoang Nguyen, Eva Späthe, Sebastian Lins +1AI AccountabilityAI Agent Governance

    Technical University of Munich · University of Kassel

  47. Beyond Memory: A Transactional Continuity Kernel for Long-Lived AI Agents

    Aug 12, 2026Jun He, Deying YuAI Agent GovernanceAgent Memory Management

  48. Governing Agentic AI in FinTech

    Aug 11, 2026Henry HanAlgorithmic AuditingAI Agent Governance

    Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Laboratory, Baylor University, USA

  49. Inferential Capability Does Not Determine Legal Scope

    Aug 11, 2026Nicola FabianoAI Agent GovernanceAI Governance

    Studio Legale Fabiano, Italy

  50. The CASE Framework: A Multi-Disciplinary Control Architecture for Governing Enterprise Agentic AI

    Aug 10, 2026Srinivas Telukunta, Georgios Nektarios Lilis, Lucio BaronAI Agent EvaluationAI Agent Governance

    Cornell University · Johns Hopkins University · AI71

  51. Multi-Agent AI Safety as an Institutional Design Problem

    Aug 10, 2026Abdullah XAI Agent SafetyMulti-Agent Systems

    POLIS Research Programme, Project AWARE

  52. The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games

    Aug 10, 2026Fatemeh Seyedin, Adrian Weller, Jinhyuk Yun +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Coordination

    Berlin, Germany · Cambridge, UK · Soongsil University +1

  53. Context Is Not Authority: Structured Runtime Governance for Financial Market Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Rui Tang, Qiangqiang Liu, Yichi Zhang +3Financial ServicesAI Agent Security

    OpenAsk · Binance · New York University New York, New York, USA +2

  54. Fluid Structure, Rigid Record: A Layered Organizational Design Framework for Agent-Native Organizations

    Aug 9, 2026Lucian ZhuMulti-Agent OrchestrationAI Agent Governance

    Independent Researcher

  55. SuperLocalMemory 4.0: The Governed Memory Operating System for AI Agents

    Aug 8, 2026Varun Pratap Bhardwaj, Garima Singh, Arun Pratap BhardwajAgent MemoryAI Agent Governance

    Qualixar / Independent Researcher, India · Independent Researcher, India

  56. Legal Responsibilities Using Autonomous Agents For Artificial Intelligence

    Aug 8, 2026Mark BurgessAI AccountabilityAI Agent Governance

    ChiTek-i AS

  57. From Single Chatbots to Governed Agent Ecosystems: An Agentic AI Pattern Catalogue and Orchestration Framework for Mission-Critical Hospital Information Management Systems

    Aug 7, 2026Manideep Dhar, Ritwik Singh, Sharat Chandra Kumar ManikondaHealthcareLLM Agent Orchestration

    Chief Operating Officer and Head of Research and Development, Instil-it, Hyderabad, Telangana. · Chief AI Architect Engineer, Instil-it, Hyderabad, Telangana · Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Chief Data Scientist, Instil-it, Hyderabad, Telangana

  58. Agentic AI: User Empowerment or Enclosure?

    Aug 6, 2026David Gamba, Daniel M. Romero, Grant SchoenebeckAI Agent GovernanceAI Governance

    University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  59. Resourced Authority A Mechanism-Design Model for Participatory Governance of Deployed AI Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Praphul Chandra, Sujit Gujar, Ganesh GhalmeAI Agent SafetyAI Agent Governance

    Atria University · IIIT Hyderabad · IIT Hyderabad

  60. From Siloed Algorithms to Compliance-First Agentic Platforms: A Multi-Layered Architecture for Hospital AI Systems

    Aug 6, 2026Manideep Dhar, Ritwik Singh, Sharat Chandra Kumar ManikondaMulti-Agent OrchestrationHealthcare

    Chief Operating Officer and Head of Research and Development, Instil-IT, Hyderabad, Telangana. · Chief Artificial Intelligence Architect Engineer, Instil-IT, Hyderabad, Telangana. · Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Chief Data Scientist, Instil-IT, Hyderabad, Telangana.