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Beyond Single-Agent Alignment: Preventing Context-Fragmented Violations in Multi-Agent Systems

We identify and formalize a novel security risk: Context-Fragmented Violations (CFVs) - a class of policy breaches where individual agent actions appear locally safe and reasonable, yet collectively violate organizational policies because critical policy facts are siloed in different departments private contexts. Existing prompt-based alignment mechanisms and monolithic interceptors are poorly matched to violations that span contextual islands. We propose Distributed Sentinel, a distributed zero

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Published: 24 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Safety & alignment · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (24 April 2026), “Beyond Single-Agent Alignment: Preventing Context-Fragmented Violations in Multi-Agent Systems,” evidence record 5423, https://ethics.ai/record/5423 (originally published by arXiv).

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