Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades Policy Compliance

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arXiv:2608.16055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing agent benchmarks ask whether the agent finished the task. We ask whether it finished it within policy. We introduce Fiducia-bench, a benchmark for the governability of financial agents---whether they escalate when obligated, abstain when required, and leave an auditable trail---and use it to study a question no prior benchmark addresses: does decomposing an agent into components degrade its governance? It does, and the mechanism is specifi