LeaseGuard: Incumbent-Preserving Admission Control for Privileged LLM Agents

📅 2026-09-21
📈 Citations: 0
Influential: 0
📄 PDF
🤖 AI Summary
针对特权语言模型代理可能无权抢占当前资源所有者的问题,提出LeaseGuard方法,通过资源租赁、健康检查等机制有效减少了73.3%的未授权抢占。
📝 Abstract
Privileged language-model agents can satisfy a new system task by displacing a healthy incumbent that depends on the same file, process, socket, lock, or capacity allocation. This failure arises because execution privilege determines whether an operation can run, not whether the requester may preempt the current resource owner. We present LeaseGuard, a deterministic admission layer that represents preemption authority through canonical resource leases, incumbent-health checks, effect-aware admission, coexistence limits, safe alternatives, and resource-scoped overrides before adapter execution. We evaluate it on a frozen benchmark of 60 newly authored conflict scenarios with matched controls across two local model families. Relative to a preservation prompt, LeaseGuard reduces unauthorized preemption from 73.3% to 0.0% and increases safe completion by 70.0 percentage points (scenario-clustered 95% CI [60.8, 79.2]). Requested-task success changes by -3.3 points (95% CI [-9.2, 2.5]). The fully evaluated v0.2 broker also rejects a forged incumbent task identity in a hash-linked stress audit. Expiry-only reclamation can still expose a healthy incumbent after missed renewal. The evidence supports incumbent-preserving admission when effects are completely mediated, task ownership is authenticated, and lease expiry reflects incumbent liveness.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Privileged LLM Agents
Incumbent-Preserving
Admission Control
Resource Preemption
System Task
Innovation

Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.

deterministic admission layer
resource leases
incumbent-health checks
effect-aware admission
coexistence limits
💼 Related Jobs
No related jobs found.
J
Junru Zhu
Independent Researcher
Y
Yixin Yang
Independent Researcher
X
Xiaoqing Ding
University of Chicago
R
Ruoyu Qi
Independent Researcher