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Before the Tool Call: Deterministic Pre-Action Authorization for Autonomous AI Agents

AI agents today have passwords but no permission slips. They execute tool calls (fund transfers, database queries, shell commands, sub-agent delegation) with no standard mechanism to enforce authorization before the action executes. Current safety architectures rely on model alignment (probabilistic, training-time) and post-hoc evaluation (retrospective, batch). Neither provides deterministic, policy-based enforcement at the individual tool call level. We characterize this gap as the pre-action

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Published: 21 March 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Safety & alignment · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (21 March 2026), “Before the Tool Call: Deterministic Pre-Action Authorization for Autonomous AI Agents,” evidence record 6912, https://ethics.ai/record/6912 (originally published by arXiv).

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