Preprint / scholarly article
Counterfactually Auditable Lifecycle Certification for Autonomous Agents
- Published
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.19089134
Abstract
This preprint develops a conservative lifecycle-certification framework for autonomous agents under finite routing, monitoring, and deployment budgets. It formalizes counterfactually auditable admission, retirement, monitoring, and deployment rules using direct move inference, replay support, and anytime-valid sentinel monitoring.
Keywords
- autonomous agents
- AI agent
- lifecycle certification
- counterfactual auditability
- direct move inference
- adaptive sentinel monitoring
- e-process
- anytime-valid inference
- forecast transport
- budget-feasible deployment
- off-policy evaluation
- causal inference
- tool-use agents
- agent lifecycle management
- interface stock