Context Is Not Authority: Structured Runtime Governance for Financial Market Agents

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arXiv:2608.09025v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Financial agents can turn correct context into an unauthorized effect: a customer-facing commitment, trade, or deployed policy. We present SAGE-Fin, a finance-specific authority-handoff contract that makes the proposed effect, not merely its text, the object of runtime control. SAGE-Fin compiles proposals into typed, adapter-bound candidates; records missing or stale institutional obligations as coverage debt; contracts authority under current