Agent approvals can omit effects triggered downstream by tools

The authors show that coding-agent approval records often capture the invoked command but not its workflow's transitive file, network, or tool effects.

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Jinqian Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences) · Haojun Xia (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences) · Shujiang Wu (Beihang University) · Jingkun Yue (State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) · Xia Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences) · Zhangpei Cheng (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences) · +1 more
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The authors defined closure-bound approval across six operational effect classes, distinguishing the visible command or tool call from the full execution closure it activates.

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From Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences and 3 others

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Coding-agent approval records omit transitive workflow effects; pre-execution effect predictions can recover coverage.

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