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Auditing Provenance Sensitivity in LLM Agent Action Selection

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arXiv:2607. 20827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents choose tools and arguments from context that mixes user requests, tool outputs, retrieved records, memory, and untrusted text.

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