Don't Trust the Code, Check Its Effects: Runtime Refinement for Regenerated Systems Code Under an Adversarial Generator

arXiv:2609.00430 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Project page: https://os-for-agent.github.io

Terminology

• Verification — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Formal Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Workflows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Protocol-Driven Development: Governing Generated Software Through Invariants and Continuous Evidence
• Sovereign Assurance Boundary: Certificate-Bound Admission for Agentic Infrastructure
• The Time is Here for Just-in-Time Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
• KVerus: Scalable and Resilient Formal Verification Proof Generation for Rust Code
• Inductive Deductive Synthesis: Enabling AI to Generate Formally Verified Systems
• Cordon: Semantic Transactions for Tool-Using LLM Agents
• Agent Control Protocol: Admission Control for Agent Actions
• Specifications: The missing link to making the development of LLM systems an engineering discipline
• Atomix: Timely, Transactional Tool Use for Reliable Agentic Workflows
• Lingering Authority: Revocable Resource-and-Effect Capabilities for Coding Agents

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