A finite-state protocol defines when an agent may search, propose a change, request user approval and finally execute. Calls not allowed in the current state are rejected before side effects; reserved human choices cannot be supplied by the model itself. In the selected tau-bench airline evaluation, the baseline agent changed bookings without the required…
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Concordat enforced action order and explicit confirmation outside the language model
Concordat offers only state-legal tools to the model and checks protocol transitions at runtime instead of treating a confirmation sentence as an enforceable guarantee.
Scope
These are controlled airline tasks and model configurations, not evidence of a deployed airline breach or a universal correctness guarantee.
Assessment profile
Assessment method- Setting
- evaluation
- Exploitation
- demonstrated
- Evidence
- Grade B
- Remediation
- mitigation available
- AI role
- AGAINST AI
Basis and provenance
The paper compares executable airline-task changes and missing user confirmation against a protocol-enforcing agent; selected baselines violate the user-confirmation requirement. No live airline deployment was examined and the prototype offers an explicit runtime intervention. Impact is left ungraded because a calibrated 0-to-4 impact basis for actual affected targets is unavailable from these Claims.
Assessed Oct 28, 2026 using diggingbeagle.assessment/1.
Evidence basis: CLM-CP22-032-A · CLM-CP22-032-B · CLM-ENRICH-20261028-004 · Concordat: Typed Sessions for LLM Agents
At a glance
Real-world integration across arbitrary tools, emergency actions and distributed state restoration still needs independent testing.
Limits and uncertaintyFull account
A finite-state protocol defines when an agent may search, propose a change, request user approval and finally execute. Calls not allowed in the current state are rejected before side effects; reserved human choices cannot be supplied by the model itself.
In the selected tau-bench airline evaluation, the baseline agent changed bookings without the required affirmative user confirmation in 13 of 50 tasks under GPT-4.1. The authors report no missing-confirmation changes for the Concordat agent in those tests, while the Claude Haiku 5.5 baseline produced 29 violations across 128 task runs. Primary evidence.
These are controlled airline tasks and model configurations, not evidence of a deployed airline breach or a universal correctness guarantee.
Enforce the permitted action sequence and signed human approval at the tool dispatcher, persisting transitions across restarts.
Claims & evidence
CLM-CP22-032-AIn the selected tau-bench airline evaluation, the baseline agent changed bookings without the required affirmative user confirmation in 13 of 50 tasks under GPT-4.1.supported
Basis: reported finding
- supportsConcordat: Typed Sessions for LLM Agentsprimary disclosure
Abstract; airline benchmark gpt-4.1 baseline
CLM-CP22-032-BThe authors report no missing-confirmation changes for the Concordat agent in those tests, while the Claude Haiku 5.5 baseline produced 29 violations across 128 task runs.supported
Basis: reported finding
- supportsConcordat: Typed Sessions for LLM Agentsprimary disclosure
Abstract; comparison under customer-pressure simulation
CLM-ENRICH-20261028-004The authors report that the standard tau-bench reward often failed to identify booking modifications made without the required affirmative user confirmation.supported
Basis: reported finding
- supportsConcordat: Typed Sessions for LLM Agentsprimary disclosure
Abstract, airline benchmark and reward evaluation
Controls and mitigations
- Enforce the permitted action sequence and signed human approval at the tool dispatcher, persisting transitions across restarts.
Unknowns and contradictions
- Real-world integration across arbitrary tools, emergency actions and distributed state restoration still needs independent testing.
Sources and citation
Material revision history
- Oct 28, 2026 · Canonical change recorded · new in release · revision 199