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The Guardrail Became a Workflow

PolicyGuide compiles policy into a graph and returns step-specific remediation at user-turn boundaries.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-23-026
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Summary

PolicyGuide compiles policy into a graph and returns step-specific remediation at user-turn boundaries.

Across airline, retail and telecom tasks with one agent-verifier pairing, the preprint reports mean four-run pass rate rising from 0.42 to 0.62, with the largest improvement in telecom. The same workflow representation transferred to two other agent families, while complementary tests found lower observed attack success and stronger procedural compliance than the compared safeguards.

Why it matters

PolicyGuide compiles policy into a graph and returns step-specific remediation at user-turn boundaries.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. PolicyGuide compiles policy into a graph and returns step-specific remediation at user-turn boundaries.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-23-015

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.19861arXiv · primary research

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