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From Evidence to Effect: Authority Semantics and Runtime Infrastructure for Stateful Agents

Year: 2026

Type: preprint

Abstract: Stateful agents reuse artifacts after producing executions and permissions change. We formalize authority-sufficient observations and durable effects bound to execution and material identities. WTB implements this interface through runtime adapters, shared evidence, and transactional publication/recovery. Six study families separate the mechanism from its integration. Raw and typed evidence both solve 32/32 authority cases, with model-dependent planning effects. Fixed-intent enforcement blocks six unsafe proposals and executes 12 eligible authorized intents. Complete controls match WTB's capability. Paid integration yields 176/210 accepted benchmark-source stages, including 19/30 publication stages, recovery on 8/8 primary SWE repositories, and the most complete continuous trajectories on each of three source tasks. The findings connect authority information, effect admission, and infrastructure reuse in stateful agents.

Source: arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2609.08472

Authors: Li, Yang, Xu, Zongsi, Volkov, Sergey, liu, hai, Zhou, Tuo, Chen, Xiyu, Wan, Di, Shao, Dian, Luo, Ye, Sun, Hao

Institutions: University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Shenzhen University

Language: English

Topic: Access Control and Trust

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7212081255

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