Who May Release an Agent's Promise? Standing over Commitments in Multi-Party Chat
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 (Qwen3.8-27B: 89%; gpt-6.1-sol: 83%); nearly all act on a bystander's "go ahead after all". Oracles dissociate the errors: stating the rule or the credit...
| Authors | Lan Wei, Bingyu Shen, Jiaqi Tang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 15 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 October 2026 |
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