G-CARB: Graph-Localized Conformal Agent Risk Budget for Compositional Harm

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arXiv:2610.05563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small language model (SLM) agents need safety controls that track consequences across tool calls with little monitoring overhead. A private read, for example, becomes a leak when a later action sends that data outside the system. We introduce CARB (Conformal Agent Risk Budget), which calibrates when to stop an agent using a ledger of harm incurred before stopping. Under exchangeable episodes, standard conformal risk control bounds this declared l