External specifications, not agents, should authorize task completion claims

SpecHarness converts agent-visible instructions into tracked obligations and requires admissible evidence before verifiable requirements can be marked complete.

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Haiqing Li · Xin Ma · Yinhao Wu · Wenliang Zhong · Feng Jiang · Thao M. Dang · +4 more
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Li and colleagues examine a structural weakness in language-model agents: the same model often performs a task, evaluates its own work, and declares completion.

The authors extracted 509 task directions from SkillsBench using only information visible to the agent: prompts, workspace contents, and injected skill specifications.

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Independent · Part of Agent Rule Compliance, now 17 papers

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Large language model agents should not declare their own completion: specification-governed state must be established by admissible evidence from qualified providers.

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