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SAFETY SENTRY: Context-Aware Human Intervention via EXECUTE-ASK-REFUSE Routing

LLM agents act on real-world environments through tool calls, and a single misjudged action can cause irreversible harm. The standard safeguard is a guard model that labels each proposed action as safe or unsafe, but this binary view conflates two distinct decisions: whether the action is harmful in itself, and whether it is appropriate given the user's context. It also operates at the granularity of action categories rather than individual instances, producing routine interruptions that erode a

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Published: 15 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.AI
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Environment
Retrieved: 16 July 2026

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ethics.ai (15 July 2026), “SAFETY SENTRY: Context-Aware Human Intervention via EXECUTE-ASK-REFUSE Routing,” evidence record 10919, https://ethics.ai/record/10919 (originally published by arXiv cs.AI).

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