Safety Does Not Compose: Non-Decaying Loop State for Autonomous LLM Agents
-cross Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly deployed as autonomous loops.
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-cross Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly deployed as autonomous loops. Starting from one human goal, such a system repeatedly discovers work, plans, executes tool calls, verifies outcomes and persists state across many unattended iterations. The agent safeguards in wide use, however, are defined over a single trajectory, and their safety state is re-initialized when the next trajectory begins. We show that this is a failure of composition rather than an implementation detail.
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