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PublishedOctober 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Masked Erosion: How Acceptance Gates Lose Redundant Safeguards in Self-Improving Agents
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arXiv:2610.38392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving LLM agents edit their own harness, the prompts and rules around a fixed model, and keep an edit only if an acceptance gate scores it higher on a batch of tasks. Such a gate sees what the harness does under the current model, not what it
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