Only 5.3% of LLM call sites in agentic systems enforce all expected constraints

Weng et al. analyze 496 call sites across 40 systems and find that the presence of checks does not guarantee adequacy, with 63% of expected constraints unmet.

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Shihao Weng · Longtian Wang · Yang Feng · Mingfei Cheng · Jia Liu · Chao Shen · +3 more

Nanjing University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Singapore Management University · University College London

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The authors present a systematic empirical study of constraints around LLM call sites in open-source agentic systems.

4 million lines of code across Python, JavaScript, Java, and TypeScript covering six task domains.

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