Abstract
Verify-Before-Act is a lightweight safety gate that stops artificial intelligence (AI) agents from executing high-impact actions built on an unverified assumption, such as deleting a lab server that is actually a production server. Before an action runs, the gate determines whether a critical fact was verified or merely inferred and, when inferred, confirms the fact against an authoritative source. The gate therefore catches dangerous actions that permission and confidence checks may allow. Across five models, the gate caught 41 of 41 such harmful actions with no false alarms, operated in front of any tested model at near-zero cost, and prevented a measured network outage on live hardware.
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Recommended Citation
Singh, Amit, "VERIFY-BEFORE-ACT SAFETY GATE FOR AI AGENTS", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/11305