3 papers
cs.AI2026
Who May Release an Agent's Promise? Standing over Commitments in Multi-Party Chat
Lan Wei, Bingyu Shen, Jiaqi Tang +6
When an assistant serving a team makes a promise to Alice, who may cancel it? We call this standing: only the creditor (the person owed) or someone the creditor or operator policy…
cs.AI2026
Executable Prefix Values for Locating Agent Failures
Bingyu Shen, Jiaqi Tang, Lan Wei +3
Work on debugging LLM agents treats the "first mistake" marked by a human or LLM judge as ground truth for where a trajectory failed. We ask whether such labels point at causes or…
cs.AI2026
Empty Commitments: When Agents Promise What They Cannot Deliver
Jiaqi Tang, Lan Wei, Bingyu Shen +6
A chatbot that says "I will remind you tomorrow" will not run again until the user writes. We call such a promise an empty commitment: a promise of action after the current turn th…