Handbook.md paper says long policy docs do not reliably govern agents
spIrr · hn · 2026-07-29
A paper on Handbook.md argues that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents. The core point is that once an agent is acting in a tool-using environment, a static handbook is a weak control surface for real behavior.
It is relevant both as an agent-safety result and as a governance warning: rules written in natural language may not survive contact with autonomous systems that can ignore, reinterpret, or route around them.
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