{
  "id": 14156,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25364v1",
  "title": "Explanation-Bound Tool Execution for AI Agents: Server-Verified Action Claims Without Trusting Model Rationales",
  "summary": "Tool-using agents expose structured calls but commonly attach free-form rationales. Such rationales are neither authorization nor reliable introspection. We present Explanation-Bound Tool Execution (EBTE), a claim-carrying mediation layer that converts decision-relevant rationale content into typed action claims and checks them against server-held intent, policy, payload, tool, risk, provenance, and freshness facts. EBTE cannot widen baseline authority: conflicts deny, incomplete or uncertain cl",
  "authors": "Genliang Zhu, Chu Wang",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-28T07:16:12.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-29T05:10:12.205Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14156",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25364v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}