Not Self-Decidable: LLMs Cannot Draw the Boundary of What an Agent Verifier Can Check
LLM-based agent verifiers cannot reliably determine what they can and cannot check — a fundamental limitation with serious implications for automated compliance in regulated industries.
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arXiv:2610.04699v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A verifier for an agent faces rules of two kinds: the ones a fixed check can settle and the ones that require a judge. A team that derives its own checks fixes that split up front. Where the requirements come from outside, as in finance, healthcare and law, the agent enforces rules it did not write, so the split falls to runtime, recurring for every predicate of every rule on every action at a rate no reviewer can audit. Every escalation
Editorial Analysis
Enterprises deploying LLM agents in regulated domains like finance or healthcare cannot trust the agents themselves to determine verification boundaries — external rule definition is essential.
Mandate human-defined verification scopes for any LLM agent verifier used in compliance-critical workflows rather than allowing self-determined checking boundaries.
LLM agents in regulated workflows cannot reliably know their own verification limits — a gap that demands human-defined compliance guardrails.
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