Autoformalization of Agent Instructions into Policy-as-Code
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Abstract (arXiv)
Agent safety in high-stakes domains requires formal policy enforcement, but most existing approaches either rely on probabilistic guardrails (fine-tuned classifiers, prompt-based steering) that offer no formal guarantees, or on hand-coded symbolic enforcement that does not scale to the breadth of real policy specifications. We present an autoformalization pipeline that translates agent prompts, MCP tool descriptions, and natural language policy documents into formally verified policies using an LLM-based generator-critic loop. The resulting policies are written in the Cedar Policy Language. On the MedAgentBench benchmark, our autoformalized policies cover substantially more of the source natural-language specification than the hand-coded symbolic enforcement in prior work.
Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Agent threats, guardrails and governance, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 7 of its 17 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Jun 2026.
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- 2025Contextual bandits with entropy-based human feedbackcited by 1
- 2026Don't Make Models Guess Security and Safety: Symbolic Guardrails for Domain-Specific AI Agentscited by 1
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