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cs.AI · cs.CL · 2608.19861 · 2026/08/20

PolicyGuide: From Guarding One Action to Guiding the Whole Workflow for Policy-Compliant LLM Agents

Kang, Seongjae; Yu, Taehyung; Hwang, Sung Ju
一句话:政策合规不止于拦截——PolicyGuide 引导整个工作流完成程序性要求

问题

运行时安全卫士只检查单次动作,无法引导 agent 完成需要多步程序的政策合规(如先核验身份再处理请求)

方法

工作流级政策监控:追踪 agent 在完整流程中的程序性进度,主动给出下一步引导而非仅拦截

结果

在客服 LLM agent 场景中,程序性违规(遗漏步骤)显著减少;比动作级检查更全面

与研究方向的关联

企业 agent 部署中政策合规是硬需求,工作流级引导比单步守卫更实用

原文摘要

Customer-service LLM agents must follow organizational policy when acting on a user's behalf. Compliance failures arise from either forbidden actions, such as granting an ineligible change, or omitted procedural requirements, such as identification or confirmation. Runtime safeguards can intervene on risky actions, but action-local checks do not guide an agent through a multi-step procedure. Workflow-following systems support prescribed process execution, but primarily target workflow completion rather than safeguarding agent behavior. PolicyGuide instead compiles each domain policy into a workflow graph and invokes a proactive verifier at user-turn boundaries. From persisted graph state, the verifier reconciles open requests and returns step-specific remediation along a policy-compliant path. Across the $\tau^2$-bench airline, retail, and telecom domains with a GPT-5.4 agent and verifier, PolicyGuide raises mean $\mathrm{Pass}^4$ from $0.42$ to $0.62$, with the largest gain on telecom ($0.19$ to $0.61$), the most workflow-structured domain. The same workflows transfer to Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 2.5 Pro agents. Complementary evaluations find the lowest observed attack-success rate under adversarial users and the strongest procedural compliance in an author-designed workflow-level validation.
Policy ComplianceWorkflowCustomer ServiceMulti-Step
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