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When Do Summaries Become Instructions? Unsupported Policy in LLM Agents' Self-Written Handoff Summaries
arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language
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Research shows LLM agents' self-generated handoff summaries introduce unsupported policy instructions that alter downstream agent actions.
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- arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language · RESEARCH
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- 5 November 2026
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- 6 Nov 2026, 02:01 UK
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arXiv:2611.06545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-running LLM agents compact their context, replacing most history with a summary. We ask whether handoff summaries state permissions or…
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