{
  "id": 371,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00334v1",
  "title": "Managed Autonomy at Runtime: Gear-Based Safety and Governance for Single- and Multi-Agent Cyber-Physical Systems",
  "summary": "Autonomous agents, whether LLM-driven software agents or robotic physical agents, face a common class of failure modes when operating without continuous human oversight: safety violations from unverified actions, behavioral instability from unconstrained loops, and continuity loss from unhandled error states. We develop \\system{}, a discrete-time control system that combines five execution gears (\\Gobs{}, \\Gsug{}, \\Gplan{}, \\Gexec{}, \\Gint{}) with utility-gated dispatch and event-driven fallback",
  "authors": "Srini Ramaswamy, Wang Miaosheng",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,military-security,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-01T02:21:38.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:28.438Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/371",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00334v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}