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LeanGuard enforces verified policies for AI agents, reducing prompt injection

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Researchers have developed LeanGuard, a novel runtime system designed to enforce policies for tool-using AI agents. This system verifies tool calls against policies written in Lean4, preventing agents from executing forbidden actions. LeanGuard not only blocks unauthorized calls but also offers proof-guided repair for denied actions, significantly reducing prompt-injection success rates without impacting benign task performance. Testing on Qwen models demonstrated that LeanGuard effectively eliminates policy violations, and its feedback mechanism can improve task success. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more secure and reliable AI agents by providing a robust mechanism for policy enforcement and error correction.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Sreehari Sankar, Debargha Ganguly, Vikash Singh, Mohsen Hariri, Weicong Chen, Yanyan Zhang, Shouren Wang, Wang Yang, Chaoda Song, Alexander Nemecek, Osama Zafar, Idan Davidovich, Yuting Shao, Kai Ye, Biyao Zhang, Xinpeng Li, Joe Stubbs, Erman Ayday, Jing… ·

    LEANGUARD: Lean-Verified Guardrails for Tool-Using Agents

    arXiv:2611.02332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents often execute actions that their domain policies forbid. We present LeanGuard, a runtime that checks every proposed tool call against a policy written in Lean4 before the call reaches the environme…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    LEANGUARD: Lean-Verified Guardrails for Tool-Using Agents

    LeanGuard is a verified runtime that blocks policy-violating tool calls by language-model agents and can repair them via proof-guided search, reducing unauthorized executions and prompt-injection success without harming benign task performance.

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