Causal Attribution for Agentic Decisions: Estimators, Coupling, and a Traceability Specification

arXiv:2609.06445 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-06

Updated: 2026-09-06

Comments: 23 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, 3 propositions with proofs. Pre-registered discrepancy experiment published in full and not run; no empirical result is claimed. Companion to arXiv:2608.13754. Code, validators, derivations and the traceability specification: https://github.com/designer-coderajay/Causal-Attribution-for-Agentic-Decisions

Code: https://github.com/designer-coderajay/Causal-Attribution-for-Agentic-Decisions

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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