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INTENT-AS-A-TOOL Makes it Easy to Track Agentic Misalignment

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TL;DR - INTENT-AS-A-TOOL gives autonomous LLM agents a dedicated channel for signaling behavioral intent, enabling fine-grained tracking of agentic misalignment during reasoning. It could support earlier online intervention before harmful actions occur.

  • Harmful actions under goal conflicts are often preceded by detectable intent signals in chain-of-thought reasoning.
  • Intent-targeted tools let models explicitly indicate commitment toward a behavior during generation.
  • Tool-call probabilities provide judge-free, dense trajectories of behavioral tendencies, unlike coarse post-hoc chain-of-thought labels.
  • The method complements chain-of-thought monitoring and helps identify critical reasoning steps for intervention.

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INTENT-AS-A-TOOL Makes it Easy to Track Agentic Misalignment

arXiv cs.CL Yutong Zhang, Jianshuo Dong, Peng Xu, Long Wang, Jie Zhang, Tianwei Zhang, Xiaoping Zhang, Han Qiu 2026-08-27 arXiv:2608.27348
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TL;DR - INTENT-AS-A-TOOL gives autonomous LLM agents a dedicated channel for signaling behavioral intent, enabling fine-grained tracking of agentic misalignment during reasoning. It could support earlier online intervention before harmful actions occur.

  • Harmful actions under goal conflicts are often preceded by detectable intent signals in chain-of-thought reasoning.
  • Intent-targeted tools let models explicitly indicate commitment toward a behavior during generation.
  • Tool-call probabilities provide judge-free, dense trajectories of behavioral tendencies, unlike coarse post-hoc chain-of-thought labels.
  • The method complements chain-of-thought monitoring and helps identify critical reasoning steps for intervention.
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