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The Irreversibility Budget: Fleet-Level Risk Accounting and Admission Control for Agent Operating Systems

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 31, 2026 · UTC

Fleets of LLM agents now externalize effects that cannot be fully undone: they move money, deploy code, delete data, and disclose information. Current controls check one effect at a time, so a fleet of individually authorized agents can overdraw its principal's risk under a shared trigger while every local gate stays correct. We propose the irreversibility budget, a cumulative account of residual value-at-risk that a trusted runtime maintains for each principal across agents, workflows, and tenants. Treating irreversibility as a first-class resource, the runtime charges each effect its residua

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