Before Retrieval Begins: Safety and Tool-Use Decisions in LLM Agents

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-16

Updated: 2026-10-16

Comments: 19 pages, 5 figures. Preprint version of a manuscript submitted to Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)

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

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