arXiv AI

Graph, Loop, and Harness Engineering for Zero-Trust Agentic Data Engineering and Analytical Processing

The paper introduces two zero‑trust frameworks for cloud data engineering and analytical processing. The first, Zero‑Trust Agentic Data Engineering, automatically generates, deploys, and verifies complete data‑engineering solutions from natural‑language tasks, requiring evidence from repositories, deployments, runtimes, and policies. The second, Zero‑Trust Agentic OLAP, combines governed data preparation with verified online analytical processing, allowing production promotion only after rigorous validation and evidence‑bound approval, and ensuring analytical outputs are released only after same‑snapshot execution, exact result equivalence, deterministic grounding, and reflection. Both frameworks rely on three core abstractions—graph engineering for evidence‑gated workflow structure, loop engineering for bounded recovery, and agent‑harness engineering for zero‑trust execution—and are evaluated under nominal execution, controlled failures, bounded recovery, and policy‑constrained conditions to measure verified completion, recovery, authorization enforcement, production promotion, and verified OLAP execution.

arXiv AI
Sep 2

Towards Agentic Cloud Engineering: Graph and Loop Engineering with a Zero-Trust Agent Harness

The paper introduces Agentic Cloud Workflow Engineering, a framework that converts natural‑language agentic cloud‑engineering tasks into validated code repositories and verified cloud deployments. It separates graph engineering for long‑horizon workflow progression, loop engineering for bounded diagnosis and recovery, and agent harness engineering for zero‑trust execution. Experiments on Google Cloud show that executions either produce a verified deployment or an auditable terminal failure within bounded recovery limits.

By Sagar Srinivas Sakhinana, Venkataramana Runkana
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Forward-Deployed Full-Stack Engineering for Autonomous Cloud MLOps

The paper introduces a multi‑agent framework that transforms natural‑language MLOps tasks into verified repositories and operational cloud deployments. It uses a stateful Graph Orchestrator to coordinate agents for repository generation, review, execution, verification, release, and monitoring, ensuring lifecycle transitions only occur when supported by verifiable evidence. The framework, implemented on Google Cloud Platform, demonstrates prevention of unsupported transitions and drives each run toward a verified deployment or an auditable failure.

By Sagar Srinivas Sakhinana, Venkataramana Runkana
arXiv AI
Jun 16

From Agent Traces to Trust: A Survey of Evidence Tracing and Execution Provenance in LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 04990v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents are evolving from passive text generators into autonomous systems capable of planning, tool use, retrieval, memory access, environmental interaction, and multi-agent collaboration.

By Yiqi Wang, Jiaqi Zhang, Taotao Cai, Zirui Liu, Qingqiang Sun, Zequn Sun, Zhangkai Wu, Manqing Dong, Mingkai Zhang, Xuefei Yin, Yanming Zhu
arXiv AI
Sep 23

Trustworthy Agentic AI: Failure Modes, Mitigation Strategies, and a Lifecycle Framework for Autonomous LLM Systems

The paper discusses the trustworthiness of agentic AI systems built on large language models, highlighting new security and operational risks such as indirect prompt injection, memory contamination, and cross‑session data leakage. It categorizes failure modes, reviews mitigation strategies—including instruction hierarchies, context isolation, and constrained tool use—and introduces the Trustworthy Agent Development Lifecycle (TADL), a six‑phase framework for specification, design, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. The authors note that TADL has not yet been empirically validated but offers a structured foundation for developing more secure and accountable agentic systems, and they call for improved benchmarks and future research priorities.

By Fayeq Jeelani Syed, Rehan Ahmad, Ali Al Bataineh, Aakriti Adhikari