arxivcs.AIcs.CRcs.MA2026-07-08
Operational Reframing and Approval-Framed Delegation in Multi-Agent LLM Safety
Lifei Liu, Haoran Yu, Xiaochong Jiang, Su Wang, Pin Qian, Yihang Chen
Safety evaluations of multi-agent LLM systems often compare a direct prompt with a planner-executor pipeline and report the difference as a single "pipeline effect." We argue that this aggregate is difficult to interpret because it conflates three mechanisms: harmful intent may b…