Preprint
Sep 2026
Beyond Agent Harnesses: Cross-Substrate Authority for Multi-Agent Systems
Agentic systems persist model-visible memory while mutating workspaces, while a runtime, registry, or approval service may hold authority state outside both. Identical final files can then require opposite safe actions. We call this the cross-substrate authority gap: decision- relevant authorization information resides...
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