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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 28 of 28 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2607.13083.

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This paper cites OR-Bench: An Over-Refusal Benchmark for Large Language Models.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened OR-Bench: An Over-Refusal Benchmark for Large Language Models

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Observation f7ef4e9a-452b-4073-a590-901d3f6eefe4 · outbound

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Unresolved cited work

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Observation d4d35aed-bf20-45e4-8ac7-d0cb115867fd · outbound

This paper cites SCRIBE: Structured Mid-Level Supervision for Tool-Using Language Models.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened SCRIBE: Structured Mid-Level Supervision for Tool-Using Language Models

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Unresolved cited work

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Observation 662be392-25cb-4fda-a729-5dbf7a3ac4d7 · outbound

This paper cites Meta-Harness: End-to-End Optimization of Model Harnesses.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Meta-Harness: End-to-End Optimization of Model Harnesses

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This paper cites Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation?.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation?

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Unresolved cited work

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Observation 3b8334a4-eacb-4c28-8943-1f898beebaf5 · outbound

This paper cites SafetyRepro: Configuration-Conditional Rank Instability on Alignment Benchmarks.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened SafetyRepro: Configuration-Conditional Rank Instability on Alignment Benchmarks

Reference 8

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Observation f4a52139-6642-4601-b802-6722bdf0fd23 · outbound

This paper cites Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses

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This paper cites Reflect-Guard: Enhancing LLM Safeguards against Adversarial Prompts via Logical Self-Reflection.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Reflect-Guard: Enhancing LLM Safeguards against Adversarial Prompts via Logical Self-Reflection

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Observation 83cb1264-bb3c-481a-95f8-6be96b296c21 · outbound

This paper cites You Cannot Fix What You Cannot Find! An Investigation of Fault Localization Bias in Benchmarking Automated Program Repair Systems.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened You Cannot Fix What You Cannot Find! An Investigation of Fault Localization Bias in Benchmarking Automated Program Repair Systems

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Unresolved cited work

Reference 12

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Observation d3862ee3-275f-4aa3-8a1b-9ae35985df42 · outbound

This paper cites Categorizing Variants of Goodhart's Law.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Categorizing Variants of Goodhart's Law

Reference 13

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Observation 949024c6-0e48-453d-b1ed-46b951b70c33 · outbound

This paper cites Code as Agent Harness.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Code as Agent Harness

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This paper cites Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Evolving Agents in the Dark: Retrospective Harness Optimization via Self-Preference

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Unresolved cited work

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Observation 27ecff90-29e8-47fd-80d3-a35eab35a43d · outbound

This paper cites LLM Agents Already Know When to Call Tools -- Even Without Reasoning.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened LLM Agents Already Know When to Call Tools -- Even Without Reasoning

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Observation 6c8c60fb-bb4c-4cbc-bdd1-5eb025eeb94b · outbound

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Beyond Accuracy: Measuring Bias Acknowledgment in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Responsible AI Evaluation

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This paper cites VeRO: A Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened VeRO: A Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Unresolved cited work

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Whitson and Adam D

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Observation f7eb97d0-ab92-4840-aa81-2c947bc2927b · outbound

This paper cites Adapting the Interface, Not the Model: Runtime Harness Adaptation for Deterministic LLM Agents.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Adapting the Interface, Not the Model: Runtime Harness Adaptation for Deterministic LLM Agents

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Observation 2325e54d-7d58-4c2b-9e4d-774778e6dacf · outbound

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened PAFT: Preservation Aware Fine-Tuning for Minimal-Edit Program Repair

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Observation 0e1aaed2-53ac-4a13-8bc1-9161665f35a8 · outbound

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Reward Auditor: Inference on Reward Modeling Suitability in Real-World Perturbed Scenarios

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Observation f950cb56-c969-4987-acb1-fb549a5108ee · outbound

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Defining and Characterizing Reward Hacking

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened InThe Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Represen- tations

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened QiMeng-PRepair: Precise Code Repair via Edit-Aware Reward Optimization

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