arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational16 October 2026
Who May Release an Agent's Promise? Standing over Commitments in Multi-Party Chat
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arXiv:2610.21203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When an assistant serving a team makes a promise to Alice, who may cancel it? We call this standing: only the creditor (the person owed) or someone the creditor or operator policy authorizes may release a commitment, regardless of rank. In a controlled chat environment we vary who cancels and separate two errors: unauthorized release (obeying someone without standing) and override (executing a released promise). Across six models, smaller open ones override the creditor (Qwen3.5-9B: 69%); larger ones drop promises on a peer's direct word (Qwen3.8
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