Monitor-Validity Failures: LLM Safety Evidence Paths at Evolving Framework Boundaries
Runtime safety monitors for LLM applications can silently lose effectiveness when framework interfaces evolve underneath them—a reliability gap that undermines the evidence chain organisations rely on for AI safety assurance.
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arXiv:2610.23362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern LLM applications rely on runtime monitors that inspect tool calls, traces, streams, detector outputs, and verifier inputs. This creates an interface-reliability problem: a framework path may remain operational while policy-relevant evidence never reaches its decision point. In one representative case, a regex detector returned a positive match, but the framework stranded the result before the block decision. This differs from jailbreaks a
Editorial Analysis
Organisations trusting runtime monitors for LLM safety may not realise those monitors can silently break when upstream frameworks update, creating a false sense of security.
Implement automated regression testing for all LLM safety-monitor interface contracts and trigger re-validation on every framework dependency update.
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