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New smart-contract protocol addresses agent side effects

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Researchers have developed a new smart-contract protocol called Recourse designed to settle compensable side effects from autonomous agent actions. This protocol separates pre-action eligibility from post-action objective settleability, using typed receipts and an optimistic-oracle challenge pattern to compute residual claims. The system is implemented on Base Sepolia and includes adapters for PostgreSQL, Git, and cloud-compatible sandboxes, demonstrating a reduction in uncompensated harm compared to authorization-only and local-compensation methods. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Christoph Siebenbrunner ·

    Bonded Recourse for Smart-Contract Settlement of Compensable Agent Side Effects

    Autonomous agent runtimes execute tool actions that mutate databases, repositories, and cloud services across organizational boundaries. Authorization and local compensation cover pre-action admission and in-runtime rollback, but neither settles the residual harm left after a per…

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