POLAR: Ontology-Guided Risk Prevention for Tool-Calling LLM Agents

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arXiv:2610.08082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM tool-use agents operate in dynamic environments where many actions carry operational risk. However, most safety mechanisms react only after errors manifest. Existing pre-emptive approaches either fine-tune the agent on chain-of-thought deliberation or compile natural-language guardrails into runtime checks, but they do so without exposing a structural, auditable verdict. We propose POLAR, a guardrail framework for small tool-calling agents th