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arxiv: 2606.00603 · v2 · pith:CYQ7PXFCnew · submitted 2026-05-30 · 💻 cs.CY

Toward Agentic Governance: What Shapes LLM-Agent Intervention in Public Forums?

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The pith

Four invisible deployment choices shape LLM-agent responses to challenges in public forums, with open versus closed weights aligning to the visible-hidden decline gap.

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LLM agents moderating public forums return inconsistent answers, acknowledgments, repairs, or declines even on identical posts. Four deployment choices that operators usually cannot see each change the response rate: the model version currently served, whether the model is open-weight or closed-weight, which provider handles the call, and the active system-prompt policy. The key pattern is that the tendency to decline more on visible than hidden challenges tracks the open/closed weight boundary across the tested models rather than the access surface. Closed-weight instances decline more on visible challenges in every case; open-weight instances reverse the gap or show none. Because these choices combine to produce substantially different interventions, reliable reproduction or governance of agent behavior requires tracking all four factors instead of the model name alone.

Core claim

Across both open-weight and closed-weight LLMs, the previously reported tendency to decline more on visible than hidden challenges aligns with the open/closed weight boundary in the panel more than with access surface. Every closed-weight cell declines more on visible challenges; every open-weight cell reverses this or shows no gap. The four deployment choices each shift the agent's response rate independently, and their combinations can produce substantially different interventions on the same forum posts. Auditable forum-agent governance therefore requires awareness of model version, weight-release status, provider, and system-prompt policy rather than model name alone.

What carries the argument

The four deployment choices (model version served, open-weight versus closed-weight status, serving provider, and active system-prompt policy) that each independently shift the agent's rate of answering, acknowledging, repairing, or declining on forum posts.

Load-bearing premise

The observed differences in decline rates are driven by the open/closed weight boundary and the other three deployment choices rather than by correlated but unmeasured factors such as model scale, training data, or post-training procedures.

What would settle it

Re-testing the visible-versus-hidden decline gap on additional models while matching or controlling for scale, training data composition, and alignment procedures to determine whether the pattern still tracks the open/closed boundary.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.00603 by Luyang Zhang, Ramayya Krishnan, Yi-Yun Chu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustrative cumulative effect of the four con [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Forest plot of ∆ = visible − hidden no-action rate (%) for the nine cells in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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LLM agents are increasingly used in moderation-relevant public forum workflows, where their choices to answer, acknowledge, repair, or decline are routinely challenged by users, platforms, and regulators. The same agent often returns different responses on identical content, so any defense based on the agent's behavior cannot be reliably reproduced. The variation is structural. Four deployment choices typically invisible to the operator each shift the agent's response rate, and their combinations can produce substantially different interventions on the same forum posts. The four choices are (1) which model version is currently served, which can change between calls without notice; (2) the model's weight-release status (open-weight, with weights publicly downloadable, vs. closed-weight, with weights held by the provider); (3) which provider serves the request; and (4) which system-prompt policy is in force. Across LLMs spanning both open-weight and closed-weight families, we find that the previously reported tendency to decline more on visible than hidden challenges aligns with the open/closed weight boundary in our panel more than with access surface. Every closed-weight cell declines more on visible challenges; every open-weight cell reverses this or shows no gap. Auditable forum-agent governance requires awareness of all four choices, not just the model name, since each independently shifts behavior.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents an empirical panel study of LLM-agent interventions in public forum moderation. It identifies four deployment choices—model version served, weight-release status (open-weight vs. closed-weight), provider, and system-prompt policy—that each shift response rates to user challenges. The central finding is that the previously reported tendency to decline more on visible than hidden challenges aligns with the open/closed weight boundary across the tested LLMs more than with access surface: every closed-weight cell declines more on visible challenges, while every open-weight cell reverses this pattern or shows no gap. The authors conclude that auditable governance requires awareness of all four choices rather than model name alone.

Significance. If the result holds after addressing potential confounders, the work is significant for highlighting structural, often invisible sources of behavioral variability in LLM agents used for moderation-relevant tasks. It provides concrete evidence that deployment decisions beyond model identity affect reproducibility and intervention patterns, with direct implications for governance frameworks in public forums. The cross-family panel offers an initial empirical basis for distinguishing weight-release effects from other factors.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that the visible-vs-hidden decline gap aligns with the open/closed weight boundary 'more than with access surface' rests on an observational contrast. Open- and closed-weight models differ systematically in scale, post-training alignment, and training data; the manuscript provides no indication of regression controls, stratification by scale, or matched-pair designs that would isolate the boundary variable from these correlated factors. This is load-bearing for the causal interpretation of the boundary as the primary driver.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (and methods section if present): The abstract gives no information on the number of models tested, sample sizes per cell, statistical controls, or how visible vs. hidden challenges were operationalized. Without these details, it is impossible to assess whether the data support the stated alignment with the open/closed boundary or whether the panel is representative.
minor comments (1)
  1. The abstract could specify the size of the panel (number of models and conditions) to allow readers to gauge the scope of the empirical contrast.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and indicate planned revisions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The claim that the visible-vs-hidden decline gap aligns with the open/closed weight boundary 'more than with access surface' rests on an observational contrast. Open- and closed-weight models differ systematically in scale, post-training alignment, and training data; the manuscript provides no indication of regression controls, stratification by scale, or matched-pair designs that would isolate the boundary variable from these correlated factors. This is load-bearing for the causal interpretation of the boundary as the primary driver.

    Authors: We agree the analysis is observational and that weight-release status correlates with other factors such as scale and alignment. The manuscript reports an empirical pattern across the tested panel rather than asserting causality. In revision we will add explicit language in the abstract and a new limitations subsection clarifying the observational nature of the finding and discussing potential confounders including model scale, post-training procedures, and training data. We will also add regression specifications controlling for available covariates (e.g., parameter count) where the data structure permits. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (and methods section if present): The abstract gives no information on the number of models tested, sample sizes per cell, statistical controls, or how visible vs. hidden challenges were operationalized. Without these details, it is impossible to assess whether the data support the stated alignment with the open/closed boundary or whether the panel is representative.

    Authors: We will revise the abstract to state the number of models tested, sample sizes per cell, and a concise description of how visible versus hidden challenges were operationalized. Full details on statistical controls and operationalization will be confirmed or expanded in the methods section. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely observational empirical panel with no derivations or fitted predictions

full rationale

The manuscript is an empirical study reporting observed differences in LLM-agent decline rates on visible vs. hidden challenges across a panel of models. The central finding is stated as a direct contrast: every closed-weight model shows higher decline on visible challenges while every open-weight model reverses or shows no gap. No equations, parameter estimation, predictions derived from fitted inputs, or derivation chains appear. Claims rest on tabulated empirical outcomes rather than any reduction to prior self-citations or self-defined quantities. The study is self-contained against external benchmarks and receives a normal non-finding for circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests entirely on empirical observations from a panel of LLMs; the abstract introduces no mathematical derivations, free parameters, axioms, or postulated entities.

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