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PublishedOctober 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Before Retrieval Begins: Safety and Tool-Use Decisions in LLM Agents
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arXiv:2610.23071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly act as agents that call external tools, yet most tool-safety research examines only what follows a tool call. The prior decision of whether to call the tool remains largely unexamined and can influence downstream safe
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