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  1. PROACT-Agent: Progressive Runtime Oversight and Active Circuit-breaking for Real-Time Safety

    Sep 28, 2026Ding Jia, Wei Liu, Xianglong Du +5LLM GuardrailsRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vehicle Safety Technology, Changan Automobile · Independent Researcher

  2. Certified Multi-Source Integrity for Structured Agent Actions

    Sep 28, 2026Anmol Pandey, Aditya Jain, Liang Chen +2Data ProvenanceLLM Agent Security

    University of Warwick · University of Hertfordshire

  3. Maat: Independent Deterministic Contract-Based Governance for Multi-Agent LLM Workflows

    Sep 27, 2026Uliana ElinaMulti-Agent LLM SystemsLLM Agent Verification

    SynWe Group s.r.o.

  4. Compositional Safety Failures in Harness Evolution: Identification and Runtime Monitoring

    Sep 27, 2026Zhixiang Zhang, Zesen Liu, Wai Ip Lai +2Runtime Enforcement for AI AgentsLLM Agent Harnesses

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  5. 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

  6. Instrumental Monitor Evasion Emerges Under Ordinary Task Pressure

    Sep 24, 2026David Schmotz, Derck Prinzhorn, Luca Beurer-Kellner +3Runtime Enforcement for AI AgentsAI Agent Safety Benchmarks

    ELLIS Institute Tübingen · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · Tübingen AI Center +3

  7. Who Holds the Pen? Let Specifications, Not Agents, Sign Off

    Sep 24, 2026Haiqing Li, Xin Ma, Yinhao Wu +7LLM Agent VerificationRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA · Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

  8. Hard Stop: Kernel-Level Preemption and Containment for Rogue Agentic Execution

    Sep 24, 2026José Luis PinoAutonomous Cyber DefenseAI Agent Security

    Independent Researcher Westlake Village, CA, USA

  9. Policy as Code: A Coroutine-Bridge Harness for Fast-Reasoning Reliability on CAR-bench

    Sep 24, 2026Ivan MatveevAgent Harness OptimizationAI Agent Benchmarks

    Proxima Ultra

  10. Functional Architecture of European Electricity Trading Markets: Requirements for AI Supported Trading Systems under Regulatory Constraints

    Sep 24, 2026Walter Kurz, Wojtek StrickerAI ControlRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Swissi Institute for AI

  11. Where Does Exactly-Once Live? Model, Harness, and Tool-Contract Effects on Duplicate Side Effects in LLM Agents

    Sep 24, 2026Jiapeng LiTool-Using AgentsRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Microsoft

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. From Alignment to Access Control: A Framework for GenAI Policy Enforcement

    Sep 22, 2026Nathalie BaracaldoLLM GuardrailsRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    IBM Research

  15. FIRE: Failure-Informed Runtime Engineering for Reliable Language-Model Agents

    Sep 22, 2026Nikita Agarwal, Nivedit JainRuntime Enforcement for AI AgentsLLM Agent Reliability

    Failproof AI

  16. 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

  17. How Strongly Should Task State Influence an LLM Agent?

    Sep 22, 2026Chenyu Zhang, Wonbin Kweon, Jiawei HanLLM Agent EvaluationRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    University of Waterloo · Sungkyunkwan University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  18. ZeroGate: Trust-Preserving Fast Paths for Governed AI Agent Runtimes

    Sep 21, 2026Zexun WangRuntime Enforcement for AI AgentsRuntime Assurance

    Ond Holdings Inc.

  19. ActGov: Governing LLM Agent Actions via Policy-Constrained Validation

    Sep 21, 2026Kaiyuan Zhang, Yuke Peng, Ke Jiang +1LLM Agent SecurityRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Southern University of Science and Technology

  20. Cognitive Extensions for Dual-Process Language Agents: Memory and Self-Reflection in Interactive Environments

    Sep 16, 2026João Meneses dos Santos, Arlindo L. OliveiraCognitive Architectures for AI AgentsRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal · INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal

  21. Compositional Policy Violations: When Step-Level Compliance Fails In Agentic AI Workflows

    Sep 16, 2026Ashwini Kurady, Sri Sai Charith Grandhi, Rajesh Gupta +1Agentic WorkflowsAI Agent Monitoring

    RunCtrl

  22. Autonomy in Check: Governor-Mediated Adaptive Security at the Edge

    Sep 16, 2026Ijaz Ahmad, Ijaz Ahmad, Flavio Esposito +1Autonomous Cyber DefenseAI Agent Security

    Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland · VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland · Department of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

  23. Symbolic Temporal Supervision of LLM Agents Using Contracts

    Sep 16, 2026Yifeng Xiao, Pierluigi NuzzoRuntime Enforcement for AI AgentsLLM Agent Safety

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

  24. DriveMCP: An Agentic AI framework for Advanced Driver Assistance System

    Sep 15, 2026Farzad Nadiri, Mehdi Cina, Ahmad B. RadVLMs for Autonomous DrivingIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

  25. Delegating Authorization to Misaligned Agents: Coalitional Alignment and Safe Control

    Sep 14, 2026Natalie Collina, Surbhi Goel, Aaron Roth +1AI Agent SafetyRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

  26. Empirical Evaluation of Task-Based Permission Scoping Architecture for AI Agents

    Sep 14, 2026Halil Burak NoyanAI Agent EvaluationAI Agent Security

    Independent Researcher

  27. Why LLM Agents Collapse Without Oversight: The Enforcement Gap as the Mechanism Behind Emergence World Failures

    Sep 14, 2026Yuhang WangLLM AuditingLLM Agent Security

    Fudan University

  28. OpenAI4S: Code as Action, Science as Sessions

    Sep 14, 2026Gongbo Zhang, Hao Li, Yu Wang +15Data ProvenanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, 518055, China · Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Independent Researcher +1

  29. Guardrailed Meta-Agent Loops: Stress-Testing Policy Pinning, Budget Bounds, and Crash Recovery

    Sep 14, 2026Qinzhen Ma, Jialin WuAgent Failure AnalysisAI Agent Reliability

    Rice University · University of California, San Diego

  30. ActGuard: Pre-execution Action Auditing against Indirect Prompt Injection in LLM Agents

    Sep 14, 2026Bingzheng Wang, Xiaoyan Gu, Wentao Wang +3Runtime Enforcement for AI AgentsPrompt Injection Defense

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 2School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 3Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Defense, Beijing, China +3