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Paper: Reason Less, Verify More: Deterministic Gates Recover a Silent Policy-Violation Failure Mode in Tool-Using LLM Agents

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type: paper title: "Reason Less, Verify More: Deterministic Gates Recover a Silent Policy-Violation Failure Mode in Tool-Using LLM Agents" authors: Vikas Reddy, Sumanth Reddy Challaram, Abhishek Basu year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07405 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-27 published_at: 2026-07-11 updated_at: 2026-07-11 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• agent-evaluation
• reasoning
• tool-use methods:

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collection_score: 15 collection_queries: tool-use

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: tool-use
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, reasoning, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.AI
• collection score: 15

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07405