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Same Operation, Different Permission: Evaluating Whether Guardrails Honor Authorization
Huihao Jing, Shaojin Chen, Wenbin Hu, Yuxuan Liu, Haochen Shi, Zhongwei Xie, Haoran Li, Yangqiu Song
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Abstract:As language-model agents write code, move money and change records on behalf of users, deciding whether an action is authorized has become a central safety problem. Guardrails are often placed in front of these actions, yet few evaluations ask whether their decisions follow authorization: blocking unauthorized actions while still allowing the same actions under valid permission. We introduce \bench{}, a benchmark that contrasts authorization evidence for the same operation in its language track. It combines expert-annotated natural-language scenarios with executed and verified operations, plus externally sourced native-policy requests. \bench{} checks each decision for correctness, usability and resulting effect, and tracks each request across guardrail changes. Our experiments show that many blocked operations stem from failed reviews, not correct denials. Repairing the output format restores usable decisions but changes which authorized requests are honored, and adding a second reviewer removes some errors while rejecting valid authorization. Guardrails should therefore be evaluated on both the unauthorized actions they stop and the authorized actions they let through.
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Same Operation, Different Permission: Evaluating Whether Guardrails Honor Authorization Huihao Jing * , Shaojin Chen * , Wenbin Hu, Yuxuan Liu, Haochen Shi, Zhongwei Xie, Haoran Li â , Yangqiu Song HKUST hjingaa@connect.ust.hk Abstract As language-model agents write code, move money and change records on behalf of users, deciding whether an action is authorized has become a central safety problem. Guardrails are often placed in front of these actions, yet few evaluations ask whether their decisions fol- low authorization: blocking unauthorized ac- tions while still allowing the same actions under valid permission. We introduce Authorization- Pairs, a benchmark that contrasts authorization evidence for the same operation in its language track. It combines expert-annotated natural- language scenarios with executed and veri- fied operations, plus externally sourced native- policy requests. AuthorizationPairs checks each decision for correctness, usability and re- sulting effect, and tracks each request across guardrail changes. Our experiments show that many blocked operations stem from failed re- views, not correct denials. Repairing the output format restores usable decisions but changes which authorized requests are honored, and adding a second reviewer removes some errors while rejecting valid authorization. Guardrails should therefore be evaluated on both the unau- thorized actions they stop and the authorized actions they let through. 1 Introduction Language-model agents now act for users in real systems. A coding agent may push commits to a shared repository. A customer-service assistant may issue a refund. Such agents often hold broad credentials, and a single wrong action can move money or leak private data before anyone notices. The same action can be acceptable or forbidden depending on authorization. A refund is allowed under an active delegation but forbidden after its revocation. Access-control systems encode such * Equal contribution. â Corresponding author. rules as policies, evaluated separately from enforce- ment (Hu et al., 2014; OASIS, 2013; Cutler et al., 2024). A guardrail in front of an agent faces the same decision. Both kinds of error are costly. Ap- proving an unauthorized action can cause financial loss or a data breach. Rejecting an authorized ac- tion blocks legitimate work. Frustrated by repeated false denials, users may disable the guardrail or grant broader permissions, losing protection alto- gether. Existing evaluations cover parts of this prob- lem. AgentDojo and SafeArena measure secu- rity and task outcomes (Debenedetti et al., 2024; Tur et al., 2025), while Agent-SafetyBench pro- vides interactive safety tests (Zhang et al., 2024). ST-WebAgentBench credits only policy-compliant task completions (Levy et al., 2026). Context- and permission-aware benchmarks score model answers to individual queries (Sun et al., 2025; Klisura et al., 2026; Sanyal et al., 2025). Our eval- uation connects three requirements. First, permis- sion contrasts keep the complete operation fixed. Context-sensitive evaluations already study chang- ing contexts, and we link permission evidence to review decisions and executed effects. Second, prevention totals alone cannot distinguish correct denials from blocks caused by unusable reviews, although these failures need different fixes. Third, guardrail changes require request-level compar- isons beyond aggregate totals (Xiang et al., 2025; Wang et al., 2026; Greenblatt et al., 2024; Terekhov et al., 2025). A change can raise the number of com- pleted lawful requests while rejecting previously successful ones. We introduce AuthorizationPairs to close these gaps. Its language track has fifty scenarios. Each scenario places one operation in four contexts: two lawful and two forbidden. Three security experts la- beled all 200 contexts independently. Each allowed operation runs in a local environment, and indepen- dent checks confirm its effect. The native-policy 1 arXiv:2610.16838v1 [cs.AI] 12 Oct 2026 track adds 1,594 OpenFGA and Cedar requests from public sources, labeled by the policy engines themselves. We record correctness and usability for every decision, and verify application effects in the language track. Stable request identifiers across experiments reveal the exact requests helped or hurt by each change. We use AuthorizationPairs to answer three ques- tions. RQ1: Do guardrail decisions follow autho- rization? RQ2: Is a blocked operation a correct de- nial or a failed review? RQ3: Do interface repairs and extra reviewers keep honoring valid authoriza- tion? We evaluate eight guardrail configurations. We then compare four review interfaces on two models with three seeds each. On the native-policy track, we also combine three reviewers in fifteen orders. Our contributions are: 1.Same action, different permission. Our lan- guage track holds the complete operation fixed and contrasts lawful and forbidden evidence, so an always-allow or always-block reviewer cannot score well. Executing and checking language-track decisions ties each judgment to a real effect. 2.Blocked does not mean denied. We record decision usability separately from correctness. Structured review leaves 117 to 124 of 160 inputs without a usable decision for Qwen3.5- 9B. For Qwen3.5-27B, the number is 48 to 50. Each such failure stops the operation. Schema decoding makes every decision usable in all six runs, revealing the permission judgments underneath. 3.Totals hide which requests a change breaks. Following each lawful request shows what to- tals hide. In five of six runs, moving from direct review to schema decoding recovers some lawful requests while losing others, with net changes fromâ3to+27. On the native- policy track, adding Safeguard after Qwen3.5- 27B removes one incorrect approval but ve- toes 171 lawful requests. From these records we derive acceptance criteria for guardrail changes. 2 Related Work Access control and policy language. Access- control research established least privilege and consistent, policy-based decisions (Saltzer and Schroeder, 1975; Pang et al., 2019; Cutler et al., 2024). Later work translates natural-language re- quirements into formal rules (Lawal et al., 2024; Vatsa et al., 2026; Wessner et al., 2026). Role- Conditioned Refusals, OrgAccess and FraudBench test whether language models respect permissions in database, organizational and banking settings (Klisura et al., 2026; Sanyal et al., 2025; Pai and Xian, 2026). Our language track links fixed- operation permission contrasts to usable review decisions, verified effects and request-level inter- vention records. Guardrails and agent evaluation.GuardAgent and AgentSpec enforce safety rules on agent ac- tions, and PolicyGuardBench checks trajectories for policy compliance (Xiang et al., 2025; Wang et al., 2026; Wen et al., 2025). AgentDojo and SafeArena jointly evaluate security and task behav- ior, while Agent-SafetyBench tests broader inter- active safety risks (Debenedetti et al., 2024; Tur et al., 2025; Zhang et al., 2024). ToolEmu emulates tools to expose risky agent behavior (Ruan et al., 2024). ST-WebAgentBench credits completions that respect the applicable policies (Levy et al., 2026). Our focus is narrower. We study how a reviewer judges one operation under contrasting permissions, and we track decision availability and request identity across guardrail changes. Contrastive testing and oversight. Contrast Sets perturb test instances to probe a modelâs local decision boundary (Gardner et al., 2020). Check- List, metamorphic testing and access-control veri- fication define expected relations between related inputs (Ribeiro et al., 2020; Chen et al., 1998; Hu et al., 2017). We apply the same idea to permission evidence. AI control and Control Tax study audit- ing, fallback and the cost of oversight (Greenblatt et al., 2024; Terekhov et al., 2025). Our request- level records make decision availability explicit and separate output failures from usable denials. 3 The AuthorizationPairs Benchmark 3.1 Case format Both tracks use a common case contract, with an optional application effect: (request, policy, evidence, effect, source). The request names the subject, action, arguments, resource, environment and purpose. The policy and evidence keep their original text. The effect describes a local operation for language cases, and 2 the source records provenance. Native-policy cases are decision-only and have no application effect. A case is lawful if the policy permits the request under the evidence and forbidden otherwise. In the language track, each scenario keeps the request, policy and effect fixed and changes only the authorization evidence across four contexts. A variant may change the scope, status or issuer of a grant, or add irrelevant evidence. Because the operation never changes, a reviewer that always approves or always rejects fails half of the con- texts. Scenarios cover delegation limits, handoffs, withdrawals and representative authority. The two lawful contexts of a scenario often grant permission through different paths, for example an active grant in one and an accepted handoff in the other. A reviewer may accept one path and reject the other. The backend can still run the operation, yet one valid authorization no longer enables it. Stable scenario and request identifiers let us detect such cases after every change. Models receive the public policy, request and ev- idence through each configurationâs interface. Ref- erence labels and scoring annotations stay hidden. Every input is stored with its hash, so each record shows exactly what the reviewer saw. The fixed operation includes its arguments. Changing a payment amount, recipient or deploy- ment artifact changes the request itself. Our con- trasts instead change the evidence that permits that complete request. This controls for the operationâs content: a reviewer cannot pass by learning that re- funds, deployments or data transfers should always be blocked. It must use the grant, scope and status supplied in the context. A lawful and a forbidden context therefore test opposite sides of one permis- sion boundary while leaving the backendâs ability to perform the operation unchanged. The recorded policy and evidence identify which permission route a false denial rejects. Matching that request across interventions provides a targeted regression test: a repair must preserve its valid au- thorization while rejecting its forbidden counter- part. 3.2 Reference labels Three annotators with experience in security and access control labeled every language context as lawful or forbidden. They worked independently from a shared guideline (Appendix B). Each anno- tator saw the same policy, request and evidence as the models, without other labels or model predic- tions. All three agreed on 186 of the 200 contexts (FleissâÎș = 0.91). We form initial majority labels, then adjudicate disagreements through discussion. Adjudication of the 14 non-unanimous contexts changed 3 initial majority labels. The final labels match the frozen scoring references case by case, so all reported scores retain the same reference. The annotators also wrote interpretation notes for 67 contexts. To check internal consistency, we encoded the labels as fifty policy expressions over typed facts linked to source spans. Two separately imple- mented evaluators reproduce all 198 determinate labels. The other two contexts retain lawful ex- pert labels but remain unresolved under the stricter encoded reading of an approvalâs issuer. We also report results excluding them (Appendix B). An automated annotation pass serves as an extra check and changes no label (Appendix B.2). 3.3 Native-policy track The native-policy track reuses public OpenFGA and Cedar examples without modification. It con- tains 1,594 distinct requests from 47 source appli- cations and sixty policy encodings. In 23 groups, the same policy and query appear with both lawful and forbidden states. We split connected groups of source applications and shared policy encod- ings. This gives 379 development and 1,215 test requests. The native engines reproduce every refer- ence label (OpenFGA Contributors, n.d.b,n; Cedar Policy Contributors, n.d.b). Models see the pol- icy, request and state, but not the expected answer. Appendix B.3 gives source details and engine ver- sions. 3.4 Execution and effect checks In the language track, an enforcement point re- ceives the reviewerâs decision and a description of the effect. It never sees the reference label. An ALLOW decision runs the operation in a local envi- ronment. Any other output, including an unusable one, leaves the operation unexecuted. The nine effect types range from ledger transfers and code deployment to document signing and file delivery. Independent checks read back balances, database rows, file bytes and signatures, and all 1,600 orig- inal effects match the dispatched decisions. The task is therefore permission review for a given op- eration, not planning or tool choice. We record three outcomes separately: the correctness of the judgment, the availability of a usable decision and 3 the resulting effect. A usable decision can still be wrong, and an unusable one blocks execution with- out judging anything. Native-policy cases have no executable effect and are scored on the decision alone. 4 Evaluation Protocol 4.1 Guardrail configurations The language track covers fourteen authorization families. Ten scenarios form the development split and forty form the test split, giving 40 and 160 inputs. We evaluate eight configurations on these inputs. Three general models receive our authorization policy in the prompt: Qwen3.5- 9B without thinking, Qwen3.5-27B with think- ing (Qwen Team, 2026) and Nemotron (NVIDIA, 2026). Four guardrails use their own policy inter- faces: GPT-OSS Safeguard (Safeguard) (OpenAI, 2025), Granite Guardian (Granite) (IBM Research, 2025), PolicyGuard (Rakancorle1, 2025) and the NeMo Guardrails self-check (NeMo) running on Qwen3.5-9B (NVIDIA, n.d.). Qwen3Guard keeps its fixed content-safety taxonomy and serves as a control (Qwen Team, 2025). All configurations share a 32K-token context, a single attempt and a one-hour deadline. Their prompt templates and reasoning settings differ, so we compare complete configurations, not isolated model factors. Development runs only checked that the pipeline worked, and we did not tune prompts for accuracy. A response that the interface cannot parse blocks execution and counts as unavailable. An explicit UNKNOWN counts as an abstention. Every case stays in every denominator. Appendix A lists all generation settings and label mappings. 4.2 Outcome measures The language test set has 80 lawful and 80 for- bidden inputs. A forbidden effect is an executed forbidden request, and a lawful completion is an executed lawful request. A usable denial of a law- ful request is a false denial. A response without a usable decision is an unavailable decision. Usable correctness counts usable decisions that match the reference. The native-policy track runs no effects, so we report incorrect approvals, false denials and unavailable decisions against the engine reference. These measures only make sense together. Consider the original temperature-zero run with Qwen3.5-9B (Table 4). Structured review and schema review both produce zero forbidden effects. Lawful completions separate them, ten against 71. Availability explains the gap. Structured review blocks 58 of the 80 forbidden requests through un- available decisions and only 22 through correct denials (Table 8). To compare two configurations, we match lawful requests by identity. A lost request completes only before the change, and a gained request completes only after it. The net change is gains minus losses. Each scenario contributes four related contexts, so all summaries keep scenario membership. The unit of comparison remains the request throughout these analyses. A configurationâs com- pletion total summarizes its successful set, but an intervention is evaluated by matching the members of that set. A gain and a loss can occur together even when the total increases. We retain both di- rections rather than assigning a newly completed request to replace a rejected one. The same iden- tities also distinguish a usable false denial from a lawful request blocked by output failure. These transitions connect an aggregate change to the per- mission evidence affected by it. Scenario membership supplies the dependence structure for repeated comparisons. The four con- texts share an operation and policy, and repeated seeds revisit those contexts. We therefore keep sce- nario clusters intact in the paired analysis instead of treating every response as a new independent authorization task. The seed summaries describe response variation on the same requests. The clus- tered analysis separately describes how the mea- sured difference depends on which scenarios are included. 4.3 Matched interface study This study compares review interfaces under shared models, evidence and generation settings. Direct review asks for a single decision. Structured re- view also asks for the policy requirements, findings and supporting evidence. NeMo self-check returns the componentâs native yes or no. Schema review keeps the structured-review prompt and only adds JSON-schema decoding. The schema fixes the out- put format but carries no permission information. Only structured versus schema review changes de- coding alone. Other contrasts compare interface configurations whose prompts and parsers vary jointly. The original study ran each interface once on Qwen3.5-9B at temperature zero. We repeat it on Qwen3.5-9B and Qwen3.5-27B, both without 4 804004080 Lawful requests lost Lawful requests gained Direct â Structured Direct â NeMo Direct â Schema Structured â NeMo Structured â Schema NeMo â Schema Direct â Structured Direct â NeMo Direct â Schema Structured â NeMo Structured â Schema NeMo â Schema 2.047.3 23.7 14.32.3 69.0 57.3 11.7 0.326.0 2.7 2.31.3 28.3 27.30.7 1.02.7 Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-27B Figure 1: Lawful requests gained and lost across all six interface changes for each model. Bars and labels show means over three seeds, with whiskers spanning the observed minimum and maximum. Every run uses the same eighty lawful requests. Schema denotes schema review. Forbidden effects appear in Table 1. thinking, with three seeds each. All repeated runs use temperature 0.7, top-p0.95, a 16K output limit and one attempt. Every model, interface and seed sees the same 40 development and 160 test inputs, for 4,800 calls in total. We report every run, includ- ing unavailable outputs. Appendix E gives the full protocol and the paired statistics. 4.4 Native-policy evaluation Qwen3.5-9B, Qwen3.5-27B and Safeguard each judge all 1,215 native-policy test requests. We then combine the three reviewers under an all-must- allow rule. A later reviewer sees a request only if the earlier ones allow it. We replay cached de- cisions for all fifteen orders, so the compositions need no new inference. 5 Results 5.1 RQ1: Do decisions follow authorization? Language track. Table 4 reports all eight con- figurations. Qwen3.5-27B and Safeguard match the reference on all 160 test inputs. The other six configurations fail in different ways. Qwen3.5- 9B, Granite and NeMo always return usable de- cisions but err in both directions, with six to sev- enteen forbidden effects and eight to fifteen false denials. Nemotron allows 58 forbidden effects and leaves twelve inputs without a usable deci- sion. Qwen3Guard completes every lawful request but also allows 72 of the 80 forbidden ones, so content-safety labels transfer poorly to authoriza- tion. Since two configurations reach the ceiling here, the harder comparisons come from the native- policy track and the interface study. Figure 3 breaks the results down by authorization family. Native-policy track.On the 1,215 native-policy test requests, Qwen3.5-27B is correct on 99.1%, with one incorrect approval and ten false denials. Safeguard is correct on 84.2%, mainly because it falsely denies 174 of the 767 lawful requests. Qwen3.5-9B is correct on 69.4% and approves 261 of the 448 forbidden requests. The ranking holds when we average over source applications (Ap- pendix C.3). The two kinds of error look different. Qwen3.5- 27Bâs only incorrect approval lets Bob view a root folder. Bob owns a document inside the folder, but owning a child grants no access to its parent. Safeguard denies Diana access to an expense she submitted and misses a valid path from submitter to editor to viewer. The first error crosses a resource boundary. The second misses an indirect grant. Engine replay confirms both references. The native examples also give concrete tests for a prospective repair. The folder case requires respect- ing a resource boundary: ownership of the child is insufficient for the parent query. The expense case 5 0255075100 Queries (%) 656/767 Permit 187/448 Deny 757/767 Permit 447/448 Deny 588/767 (5) Permit 435/448 (1) Deny 648/767 Permit 447/448 Deny 503/767 (4) Permit 436/448 (1) Deny 586/767 (5) Permit 448/448 Deny 502/767 (5) Permit 448/448 Deny Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-27B Safeguard Qwen3.5-9B + Qwen3.5-27B Qwen3.5-9B + Safeguard Qwen3.5-27B + Safeguard Qwen3.5-9B + Qwen3.5-27B + Safeguard Correct / NReference CorrectFalse denialIncorrect approvalUnavailable Figure 2: Native-policy outcomes of single reviewers and all-must-allow compositions on the same 1,215 test requests, replayed from cached decisions. Rows show correct counts by reference label. Parentheses give unavailable decisions. An added reviewer can remove incorrect approvals but can also veto lawful requests. Table 2 gives the evaluated orders. requires preserving an indirect permission path: submitter status already establishes the requested access. These conditions concern different poli- cies and requests. A reviewer that corrects the first while rejecting the second changes protection and authorization in opposite directions. The native references stay fixed. Repair evaluation can there- fore follow the particular permission relation that caused an error rather than checking only whether the overall approval count decreased. 5.2 RQ2: Correct denial or interface failure? Structured review fails to produce a usable deci- sion in every repeated run (Table 1). Qwen3.5-9B leaves 117 to 124 of the 160 inputs without a us- able decision, and Qwen3.5-27B leaves 48 to 50. All responses end normally below the output limit, so these are format failures, not truncation. Each failure blocks the operation and looks like a denial in prevention counts. Schema decoding removes this failure. Both models return a usable decision for every input in all three seeds. Structured and schema review also use similar output budgets, about fifty thousand to- kens per run, so the repair does not rely on a larger output limit or greater output-token consumption. A usable decision is not necessarily a correct one. With schema review, Qwen3.5-9B still allows up to six forbidden effects, and Qwen3.5-27B falsely de- nies five or six lawful requests in every seed. Direct review and NeMo self-check also vary across seeds, and NeMo on Qwen3.5-9B allows most forbidden requests. Schema decoding fixes the decision chan- nel. The decisions themselves still need permission evaluation. The repeated conditions reveal two distinct pat- terns. Structured reviewâs output problem appears in both backbones at every seed, whereas the permission outcomes of usable interfaces change across seeds. A format intervention can therefore be stable at one level and variable at another. For Qwen3.5-9B, schema review narrows the varia- tion in lawful completion compared with direct re- view, but its forbidden-effect count still varies. For Qwen3.5-27B, schema review prevents the tested forbidden effects at every seed while retaining sev- eral false denials. Neither pattern is described ade- quately by output availability alone. The comparison with NeMo also separates per- missiveness from permission discrimination. Com- pleting every lawful request is desirable only when the reviewer still rejects its forbidden counter- parts. The supplied evidence makes that require- ment testable without changing the operation. Con- versely, a reviewer that blocks both counterparts prevents the forbidden effect but fails to honor the 6 Interface Forbidden effects /80 Lawful completions /80 Unavailable decisions /160 Mean output tokens Qwen3.5-9B nonthinking Direct review3 / 0 / 1457 / 41 / 710 / 0 / 0963 Structured review1 / 1 / 213 / 10 / 10117 / 121 / 12454,127 NeMo self-check74 / 60 / 8080 / 80 / 801 / 0 / 0320 Schema review6 / 0 / 369 / 68 / 680 / 0 / 050,940 Qwen3.5-27B nonthinking Direct review1 / 0 / 274 / 73 / 740 / 0 / 01,122 Structured review1 / 1 / 048 / 45 / 5148 / 50 / 4857,119 NeMo self-check6 / 3 / 1176 / 75 / 780 / 0 / 0320 Schema review0 / 0 / 075 / 75 / 740 / 0 / 052,352 Table 1: Replicated matched-interface results. Each count lists seeds 0 / 1 / 2 on the same 160 test inputs. Both models run without thinking, with identical sampling and a 16K output limit. Mean output tokens cover one 160-input run. All responses terminate normally, with no infrastructure errors. The eight original configurations and temperature-zero study remain in Table 4. Composition Incorrect approvals /448 Lawful approvals /767 Cached consultations Qwen3.5-9B2616561,215 Qwen3.5-27B17571,215 Safeguard125881,215 Qwen3.5-9Bâ Qwen3.5-27B16482,132 Qwen3.5-27Bâ Qwen3.5-9B16481,973 Qwen3.5-9Bâ Safeguard115032,132 Qwen3.5-27Bâ Safeguard05861,973 Safeguardâ Qwen3.5-27B05861,815 Qwen3.5-27Bâ Safeguard â Qwen3.5-9B05022,559 Table 2: Cached permission decisions and consultation counts for single reviewers and all-must-allow compositions on the 1,215 native-policy test requests. The first reviewer always sees every request. Table 9 lists all fifteen orders with unavailable decisions and selected token counts. Consultations select cached responses and do not represent new inference. valid grant. Joint reporting identifies these oper- ating points, while the preserved response and re- quest records show whether the distinction comes from a usable judgment or a failed review. 5.3 RQ3: Do repairs and additional review preserve valid authorization? Interface changes. Figure 1 shows the lawful requests that each interface change gains and loses. The move from direct to schema review matters most, since schema review is the repaired interface. In five of its six runs, this move both gains and loses lawful requests. Net changes range from three fewer to 27 more completions, and the totals hide the losses. Protection also moves in both directions. For Qwen3.5-9B, schema review raises forbidden effects from three to six in seed zero but lowers them from fourteen to three in seed two. Across all 36 interface contrasts, twelve con- tain both gains and losses. Among the six direct- to-schema comparisons, only the 27-request gain of Qwen3.5-9B in seed one remains significant after scenario-cluster tests and Holm correction across all 36 contrasts (Appendix E). The repeated runs agree that schema decoding restores usable decisions. They disagree on the set of lawful re- quests it honors. The original temperature-zero run shows the same pattern. It gains thirteen lawful requests and loses two, a delegated refund and a clinical handoff (Appendix G). Removing the two unresolved contexts leaves these conclusions un- changed. Reference permissions and complete inputs stay fixed across the repeated runs. Differences between 7 seeds therefore describe variation in the sampled re- view decisions on those requests. Figure 1 summa- rizes the transition counts with means and observed ranges, while Table 1 keeps every seedâs outcomes. The two views serve different purposes: the fig- ure shows the direction and scale of an interface change, and the table retains runs in which pro- tection or lawful completion deteriorates. Request identities show which authorizations survive. Additional review. An all-must-allow composi- tion never accepts more requests than any of its members. The real question is which errors it removes and which lawful requests it gives up (Table 2, Figure 2). Adding Qwen3.5-27B af- ter Qwen3.5-9B removes 260 of 261 incorrect approvals at the cost of eight lawful approvals. Adding Qwen3.5-9B after Qwen3.5-27B removes no error and loses 109 lawful approvals. Adding Safeguard after Qwen3.5-27B removes its single incorrect approval but rejects 171 lawful requests. Each reviewer corrects different errors and brings its own vetoes. 6 Discussion Match the repair to the failure. Our three records point to different fixes. An unavailable decision is a problem of the output channel, so the first step is to repair the interface and re-check the recovered decisions. An incorrect approval calls for checking the grant or adding a reviewer that rejects the request. A false denial gives a concrete regression test, namely the evidence path that estab- lishes permission. In each case, request identities show the errors a change fixes and the valid autho- rizations it breaks. Treat preserved authorization as an acceptance test.A guardrail change should pass three checks. It must block the designated forbidden effects, re- turn usable decisions and keep honoring a declared set of lawful requests. This set, such as routine refunds or accepted clinical handoffs, is fixed be- fore selection, and gains elsewhere cannot replace a request in it. Our repeated results show why the checks must stay separate. Schema review on Qwen3.5-9B is always usable. Yet in one seed it al- lows more forbidden effects than direct review, and in another it loses six earlier successes. Schema review on Qwen3.5-27B blocks every forbidden effect but still rejects lawful requests in each seed. Apply the test to a specific permission boundary. A required lawful-request set makes preservation testable before choosing a configuration. It may include a routine refund covered by an active dele- gation or a record update permitted by an accepted handoff. The requirement attaches to those requests and their authorization paths, not to a target number of completed tasks. If a repair rejects one of them, completing another request does not restore that permission. The same request can also be checked under forbidden evidence, so preserving its lawful execution does not mean accepting it regardless of authorization. The evaluation should follow both sides of this boundary after an intervention. First check that the formerly forbidden effect is prevented by a us- able denial. Then check that the designated lawful counterpart still executes. Request identities con- nect these checks to the evidence that establishes or invalidates permission. This distinguishes a cor- rected authorization error from a blanket veto, and distinguishes recovered output from recovered law- ful capability. A repair succeeds for the required boundary only when its protection and preserva- tion conditions both hold. These checks define acceptance for the required requests. Choose oversight by the required boundary. Additional reviewers trade lawful approvals for fewer incorrect approvals. Under a zero-incorrect- approval requirement, Qwen3.5-27B followed by Safeguard keeps 586 lawful approvals. Adding Qwen3.5-9B as a third reviewer leaves 502. Either choice fails if it drops a required request. Order keeps the accepted set fixed but changes calls, to- kens and reached failures. The best choice also depends on how often forbidden requests occur and on the relative cost of each error. Appendix F.1 reports all fifteen orders under a range of cost as- sumptions. 7 Conclusion AuthorizationPairs tests whether guardrails honor authorization by keeping each operation fixed and changing only its permission. The contrasts sepa- rate correct denials from blocks caused by failed reviews, and request identities show whether valid authorization still works after a change. In our ex- periments, output repair restores usable decisions but changes the set of honored lawful requests. An extra reviewer removes some permission errors and vetoes valid authorization. Usable output and pre- 8 served authorization are separate requirements, and guardrail evaluation should check both. Limitations We drafted the fifty language scenarios with AI assistance. All three annotators work in security, so readers from clinical, legal or financial practice may interpret some policies differently. Two issuer readings remain unresolved. Native-policy refer- ences hold only for the supplied formal policies. Public examples may overlap with model training data, and source and scenario identifiers record these dependencies. The native-policy test split is public, and 89 of its inputs appeared in an earlier pilot. Models differ in reasoning settings, wrap- pers and output limits, so our comparisons concern complete configurations. Finally, each case is a single review decision. Multi-step agent workflows remain future work. Ethical Considerations Experiments use fictional identities, synthetic doc- uments, local websites and simulated balances. No real payment, external delivery, patient-record ac- cess or production deployment takes place. AI tools assisted with scenario drafting, code, analysis and writing. 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A Reproduction Guide The supplementary sections follow the main ev- idence chain: benchmark inputs and references, complete primary results, matched interfaces, re- viewer composition and bounded historical checks. Full raw responses, source snapshots, execution fix- tures and prior-study analyses remain in the project artifacts. This appendix documents the final ex- periments rather than reproducing their scheduling logs. A.1 Artifacts and evaluation units The unified release has 1,794 inputs: 200 expert- annotated language cases from fifty scenarios and 1,594 externally sourced native-policy inputs. Lan- guage development and test contain ten and forty scenarios, respectively, with four contexts per sce- nario. Native development and test contain 379 and 1,215 inputs. Scenario, source-group, exact-model and query identifiers record dependencies. Cases and model calls are not independent deployment samples. The model-facing allowlist contains request, pol- icy, evidence, effect descriptor and source iden- tity. It excludes reference decisions, permission expressions, derived facts and scoring annota- tions. The public language inputs retain SHA- 256caac36b45462. the release manifest retains 33d768bdeb66. Full hashes and their artifact paths are stored in the release manifests. The source mod- els and actual responses are never relabeled from agreement among tested models. Primary inference comprises 1,600 original lan- guage calls, 600 matched-interface calls, 200 schema-diagnostic calls, 220 native-pilot calls and 3,645 complete-native calls. These original stud- ies contain 6,265 calls. The replicated matched- interface study adds 4,800, giving 11,065 calls across these studies, not independent tasks. Techni- cal checks and automated annotation are counted separately. The later fifteen reviewer compositions reuse the complete-native responses. Their 18,225 routed records and cost grids add no model infer- ence. The automated annotation cross-check is reported separately. The experiment directories distinguish the primary language release, guardrail extension, matched interfaces, native expansion, complete native evaluation and cached cost analysis. Im- mutable manifests bind inputs, prompts, model revisions, decoding parameters and raw output hashes. Independent programs reconstruct deci- sions and resource observations. Failed technical launches and transport attempts remain in the arti- facts, separate from evaluated model outcomes. A.2 Generation and native interfaces All primary configurations have a 32,768-token context, one formal attempt and a 3,600-second request deadline. Output limits and reasoning set- tings appear in Table 4. Up to four requests run concurrently per model instance. The complete- native Qwen3.5-27B run uses up to five instances and twenty concurrent requests. The evaluation re- ports token counts rather than shared-host latency. Qwen3.5-9B is nonthinking with temperature zero, top-pone and seed zero. Qwen3.5-27B uses thinking, temperature one, top-p0.95, top-ktwenty, minimum-pzero, presence penalty 1.5, repetition penalty one and seed zero. Nemotron uses greedy generation with native thinking and category out- put enabled. Safeguard uses native Harmony with medium reasoning and greedy generation. Its ren- dering date is frozen to October 10, 2026. These are complete configuration comparisons, not iso- lated model-size or thinking interventions. Qwen model revisions arec20223623576for 11 9B andfc05daec18b0for 27B. Nemotron is 35645ed3543b.Safeguard is8a11e17b25c9, Granite Guardianb3421eda4ba6, and PolicyGuard f9060bd92c6f. Full official revision identities and weight checksums remain in the manifests. Safeguardâs final numeric label maps 1 to vi- olation and 0 to no violation. Earlier Harmony reasoning is not searched for a label. Granite uses native custom criteria and thinking, with final yes indicating violation and no indicating permission. PolicyGuard uses raw policy and trajectory content adapted to a prospective operation. Only whole violationorno_violationlabels are accepted, including complete labels at its four-token output limit. Partial or extra-text responses remain invalid (OpenAI, 2025; ROOST, 2025; IBM Research, 2025; Rakancorle1, 2025; Wen et al., 2025). NeMo Guardrails 0.24.1 invokes the actual self_check_inputaction with Qwen3.5-9B. The native Boolean controls dispatch. Recognition, fallback and output availability remain distinct. Its parser reads the first two normalized words in the registered safe, unsafe, yes and no pri- ority.Qwen3Guard uses its native fixed con- tent taxonomy, mapping Safe to permission and Unsafe or Controversial to prevention. This is an authorization-transfer control, not a supported custom-policy interface (NVIDIA, n.d.; Qwen Team, 2025). All prospective-operation mappings are author adaptations where specified. A.3 Executable observations Language effects include transfers, order creation, record updates, byte delivery, deployment, sign- ing, reservations, analysis inclusion and download delivery. The enforcement point consumes only the configured dispatch decision and public effect descriptor. It does not consult hidden reference permission. Separate SQL, byte, balance, signa- ture, live-site and unrelated-resource checks verify all primary effects. An unavailable decision pre- vents execution without supplying a usable denial. Native-policy cases measure permission judgments and have no application business-effect score. B Reference Validity and Dataset Coverage B.1 Language references and semantic uncertainty Three annotators with security expertise labeled ev- ery language context independently (Section 3.2). The guideline describes each of the fourteen autho- rization families with one lawful and one forbidden example, and asks annotators to mark a context as unclear when the evidence supports more than one reading. Annotators labeled one scenario at a time, so they saw all four contexts of a scenario together. Unanimous agreement is 93% overall and ranges from 86% to 100% across the five do- mains. Each scenario shares a policy across four contexts. Source bindings link 3,145 fact values to 3,253 original spans. The bounded permission expression supports fourteen operators: Boolean conjunction, disjunction and negation, equality and inequality, four order comparisons, membership, subset, addition, subtraction and length. Missing values are unresolved, explicit null is distinct, and ordered type errors are rejected. Canonical UTC comparison follows recorded normalization con- ventions rather than parsing arbitrary dates. Two separately implemented evaluators agree on 98 permits, 100 denials and two unresolved readings. The 198 determinate cases match the reference labels. Mechanics controls comprise fif- teen tests for the primary evaluator and sixty-five for the independent implementation. These checks show that the encoding reproduces the expert labels. Human agreement is reported in Section 3.2. The annotation flags cover 67 contexts, with 65 determinate and two unresolved results. Sixty-four involve assumptions or normalization conventions. Fourteen carry missing-fact or unresolved annota- tions, twelve of which remain decidable through another clause. These categories overlap. The other 133 contexts are unflagged and determinate. The unresolved cases areAC-cd7228011d01c5 andAC-505405a323ebbf. In the first, a marketing approval remains active while a separate audit ap- proval is withdrawn. In the second, an accepted exception remains active while another personâs exception is withdrawn. Both surviving approvals lack an explicitly restated issuer relation under the strict transcription. Contextual readings can supply that relation. The adjudicated ALLOW labels and the alternative interpretations are both retained. Both cases are originally lawful test inputs and are allowed by all eight original configurations. Ex- cluding them leaves 158 inputs: eighty forbidden and 78 lawful. Lawful totals become 63, 78, 74, 78, 67, 44, 70 and 78 in the original table order. Forbidden counts and original lost/gained contrasts are unchanged. In the matched study, direct-to- schema losses and gains remain two and thirteen, 12 while structured-to-schema gains decrease from 61 to 59. This is reference-scope sensitivity, not a newly selected test set. B.2 Automated annotation cross-check In the preserved automated cross-check, Qwen3.5- 9B annotates all 200 public language cases without access to the reference. Inputs exclude prior labels, formal facts and tested predictions. The schema requests ALLOW, BLOCK or UNDETERMINED, supporting quotes, rationale, ambiguity notes and self-reported confidence. Generation uses tempera- ture zero, top-pone, seed zero, nonthinking and a 16,384-token output limit. The run has 196 usable annotations and four output-limit terminations. Usable outputs comprise 81 ALLOW and 115 BLOCK, with 179 agreements and seventeen disagreements with the expert labels. Sixteen originally lawful cases receive BLOCK and one originally forbidden case receives ALLOW. Forty-nine responses have a quote that is not an exact source substring. Literal-match flags do not determine semantic correctness. The two issuer readings remain unresolved despite model ALLOW. The expert labels are not replaced. All 200 request hashes, raw responses, termina- tion states and schema fields are audited. A sepa- rate earlier transport attempt produces 200 HTTP 502 responses without usable annotation. It re- mains archived and is not scored as semantic re- view. The automated annotations neither replace nor adjudicate the expert labels. B.3 Formal-native sources and native replay OpenFGA sample stores at revision6802b4d859d2 supply 1,603 public Check assertions. Canoni- cal full-input grouping retains 1,548 unique in- puts and links 55 duplicate assertions.Tuple sorting preserves multiplicity and all other val- ues. Cedar examples atc251f7d1ad17supply 46 distinct inputs, comprising 37 query identities and nine static/template repetitions with different states. The sources use Apache-2.0 licenses (Open- FGA Contributors, n.d.c; Cedar Policy Contribu- tors, n.d.a). OpenFGA CLI 0.8.1 atbb4856ad814b, with em- bedded engine 1.21.0, passes all 1,944 upstream suite assertions: 1,603 Check, 229 ListObjects and 112 ListUsers. All Check exports are replayed in- dependently. Cedarâs Rust/WebAssembly engine 4.13.0 at324d3c09fc94agrees on every export and direct public replay (OpenFGA Contributors, n.d.b,n; Cedar Policy Contributors, n.d.b). Origi- nal payloads, source addresses, licensing records, expected assertions and native responses remain hash-linked. The release covers 47 source application groups and sixty exact policy encodings. A connected split over source groups and shared models gives 379 development and 1,215 test inputs. Twenty- three released query groups contain both permit and deny states for the same policy and query. The test retains 22 such groups across fourteen exact models, expanding to 24 dependent pairs. Native context can differ in several ways, so these are not independent single-factor interventions or naturally sampled workflows. Public source examples may overlap model training. C Complete Primary Results C.1 Language configurations Table 4 reports all eight original configurations and the original four matched-interface conditions on the same 160 test inputs. Figure 4 retains all forty test scenarios, and Figure 5 partitions primary er- rors by domain. All failed and unavailable outputs remain in the denominators. Development gates validate transport and execution, without choosing prompts by semantic accuracy. C.2 Development observations Every original configuration evaluates the same forty development inputs. The table preserves development availability and output usage for all eight. Their complete test outcomes are in Table 4. Development observations are not pooled with test scores. PolicyGuard reaches its four-token output limit on every test input, but complete labels re- main valid and only 67/160 are invalid. No other configuration reaches its output limit on the test set. C.3 Complete native test Each of Qwen3.5-9B, Qwen3.5-27B and Safeguard evaluates all 1,215 native test inputs, with 3,645 independently audited responses. There are 1,181 OpenFGA queries, with 745 permits and 436 de- nials, and 34 Cedar queries, with 22 permits and twelve denials. The split covers 38 source appli- cation groups and fifty exact policies. Eighty-nine inputs overlap the earlier pilot. Every full-test score uses a new complete-test response, not a reused pi- lot answer. 13 DomainScenariosDevTestExample authorization requirements Payments and procurement11440Delegated limits, cumulative commit- ments, joint approval Clinical data6024Care relationships, representative con- sent, handoff Software operations112024Artifact scope, rollout limits, single-use signing Education and research11440 Conflicts, project membership, purpose restrictions Documents and customer operations111232Recipient scope, representation, disclo- sure and download rights Total5040160Four authorization contexts per sce- nario Table 3: The primary cohort. Dev and Test count inputs, not independent scenarios. Every scenario contains two lawful and two forbidden contexts. Each reviewer evaluates the same inputs. Output totals are 2,430, 3,526,210 and 1,527,782 tokens, with medians two, 2,733 and 823. There are no full-test infrastructure failures. Safeguard has six output-limit terminations, five lawful and one forbidden. All are unavailable rather than correct denials. Qwen3.5-9B and Qwen3.5-27B terminate normally throughout. Equal-weight source-group accuracy is 67.6%, 99.3% and 87.2%. Both mem- bers are correct in four, 23 and twenty of the 24 dependent test pairs, respectively. Entire-group cor- rectness is four, 21 and eighteen out of 22. These quantities describe the fixed public-source cohort. C.4 Source-defined permission error examples The sole Qwen3.5-27B incorrect approval is caseOFGA-6b026acac9e90f7c206ec6bc, from the OpenFGA modeling guideâs custom-role exam- ple (OpenFGA Contributors, n.d.c). The query asks whetheruser:bobhascan_viewonfolder:root. Bob ownsdocument:welcome, which has the root folder as its parent. The root owner is Anne, the organization admin is Peter, and the relevant editor- group member is Martin. Root viewing derives from its configured viewer or editing routes. Child ownership supplies none of these routes. The origi- nal source assertion, archived native result and an unchanged official-engine replay all return false. The normally terminated, usable model response is ALLOW. This observes a resource-scope violation without establishing the modelâs internal inference. The illustrative Safeguard false denial is case OFGA-b3c752348e44c4fd1e02e3, from the ac- counting example.The query asks whether user:dianacan viewexpense:exp-001. Diana is its submitter. The policy includes submitter in editing and editing in viewing, so that path estab- lishes permission without requiring another role. Source assertion, archived result and unchanged replay all return true. Safeguard emits native final one, mapped to BLOCK, with normal termination and a usable response. This case is selected after inspection for its short verifiable grant path, rather than as a representative estimate of denial mecha- nisms. Both complete model payloads match their frozen public inputs and both raw responses match the final audit hashes. The two additional checks invoke the official OpenFGA CLI 0.8.1 with em- bedded engine 1.21.0 on CPU. They neither query a model nor alter the primary scores. Native cases record permission judgments only. The replay es- tablishes the encoded boundary, not an application transaction or an independently reviewed language interpretation. D Original Matched-Interface Study The matched study registers direct review, struc- tured review and NeMo self-check before 600 for- mal calls. Each processes forty development and 160 test inputs. Model, public evidence, nonthink- ing mode, sampling and output limit match. In- structions, output schema and parser vary jointly across those three arms. Development counts of 14 Qwen3.5 -9B Qwen3.5 -27BNemotronSafeguardGranite Policy Guard Qwen3 GuardNeMo Delegated scope (8) Purpose / category (16) Relationship (16) Joint authority (16) Amount / interval (16) Authority transition (12) Revoke / supersede (28) Consumption (16) Conditional exception (16) Conflict exception (12) Public basis (4) 10010075100752550100 881005010088508194 941006210094255088 811005010088386281 811005610081385088 831005010075335083 931004310089255086 751006210062195075 811005610075195681 921005810083175092 100100501001002550100 050100 Usable correctness (%) Figure 3: Usable correctness (%) by authorization family for all eight configurations on the language test set, measured against the expert labels. Parentheses give the number of inputs per family. Unavailable decisions count as incorrect. Per-scenario results appear in Figure 4. forbidden effects, lawful completions and unavail- able decisions are 0/17/0 for direct review, 0/3/35 for structured review, 11/20/0 for NeMo self-check and 0/19/0 for the later schema review, over twenty forbidden, twenty lawful and forty total inputs. Strict JSON accepts one complete finite object or one complete JSON fence, rejecting duplicate keys and nonfinite constants. Structured output contains decision and one to twelve checks, each with requirement, finding and at most four evidence strings. The original Qwen interface instead re- quires one result envelope with a single decision key and rejects fences, additional prose and length termination. The parser applies no hidden permis- sion rule or source-reference correction. NeMoâs native Boolean and fallback are recorded separately from usable policy output. All 480 original test responses terminate nor- mally. Structured review has 124 JSON syntax errors at key-value fragments inside evidence ar- rays and one overlong evidence list. Its 125 un- available decisions comprise 58 forbidden and 67 lawful cases. The other forbidden cases supply 22 usable correct denials. This explains why zero for- bidden effects is not equivalent to eighty correct denial judgments. The post hoc schema review condition (200 calls) retains structured reviewâs messages, sam- pling, reasoning, parser and output limit, adding only native JSON-schema decoding. The grammar supplies types and output fields, not permission rules or reference facts. Technical launch problems occur before model inference and remain archived. All 800 formal records occur once and pass inde- pendent decision, SQL, byte, balance, signature and unrelated-resource audits. Schema review makes all 160 test outputs usable, completing 71 lawful tasks with zero forbidden effects. It retains all ten successes of structured review and gains 61. Relative to direct review, it retains 58 lawful successes, gains thirteen and loses two. It removes five forbidden effects. All original responses and full condition sets remain available. The refund regression isAC-f07611eb059716: a USD 75 accepted-return refund to the original card under Leahâs active USD 100 delegation. Di- rect review allows it, while schema review returns a usable BLOCK. It has no interpretation flag. The clinical regression isAC-de5495dfc3b07b: care- plan update at 19:05 after acceptance at 18:55 and 15 Configuration Forbidden effects /80 Lawful completions /80 Unavailable decisions /160 Output limit Output tokens Eight complete configurations Qwen3.5-9B, nonthinking665016K1,280 Qwen3.5-27B, thinking080016K215,399 Nemotron, custom policy58761216K244,679 GPT-OSS Safeguard, native policy080016K47,550 Granite Guardian, custom criteria1769016K68,401 PolicyGuard, prospective action4746674640 NeMo self-check, original prompt1472016K320 Qwen3Guard, taxonomy control728005121,305 Matched interface study: Qwen3.5-9B, nonthinking, shared evidence and generation settings Direct review560016K970 Structured review01012516K53,478 NeMo self-check, shared prompt4380116K320 Schema review071016K50,483 Table 4: Executed effects and decision availability on the same 160 language-test inputs (80 lawful, 80 forbidden). The upper block compares complete configurations. The lower block fixes the model, nonthinking mode, sampling, supplied evidence and output limit. Unavailable decisions include strict-format failures and native fallbacks without a recognized policy label. Schema review is a registered post hoc condition. Output tokens include reasoning tokens where emitted. ConfigurationForbidden /20Lawful /20Invalid /40Length /40Output tokens Qwen3.5-9B22000320 Qwen3.5-27B thinking0200054,544 Nemotron custom policy16202245,628 GPT-OSS Safeguard0200012,542 Granite Guardian13180017,054 PolicyGuard792440160 NeMo with Qwen3.5-9B6200080 Qwen3Guard transfer202000320 Table 5: All original development observations. Length is independent of output validity. Unknown decisions are zero. PolicyGuardâs complete labels at the native output limit remain valid. Test scores appear in the main table instead of being repeated here. transfer at 19:00. It retains its same-day UTC nor- malization flag. Schema review has nine false de- nials in total. Full-quartet usable correctness is 22/40 for direct review, 0/40 for structured review, 11/40 for NeMo self-check and 34/40 for schema review. Scenario- clustered descriptive bootstrap summaries use forty clusters and 10,000 draws with frozen seeds. They describe this authored cohort rather than popula- tion failure rates. No prompt or record is selected according to test accuracy. E Replicated Matched Interfaces The complete extension contains 4,800 single- attempt calls: two nonthinking models, four in- terfaces, three seeds and 200 inputs. Development contributes 960 calls and test contributes 3,840. All prompts, schemas, data and generation settings were frozen before formal inference. Sixteen initial technical fixtures failed because the local operation descriptor was missing. After the fixture correction and explicit matching of model sampling defaults, sixteen further technical calls passed the indepen- dent transport and execution gate. These technical attempts remain archived and are excluded from formal scores. The final audit verifies all 4,800 public-input hashes, raw responses, independently parsed de- cisions and local resource states. There are no formal infrastructure failures or output-limit ter- minations. All original experiments remain un- changed. The repeated study changes temperature and sampling from the historical temperature-zero condition, so differences between those studies can- not be attributed solely to seeds. Native NeMo dispatch and usable-label recognition remain sepa- 16 Qwen3.5 -9B Qwen3.5 -27BSafeguardGraniteNemotron Policy GuardNeMo Qwen3 Guard Cumulative invoice commitments Delegated refund ceiling Emergency purchase prerequisites Grant project and item class Joint approval and delegation New bank account reconfirmation One-use order and reopening Own-expense approval conflict Two project stewards Vendor grant and role withdrawal Accepted and effective handoff Care team or emergency record Representative consent scope Research versus care permission Sealed-note referral exception Study or global consent withdrawal Canary percentage ceiling New-owner ratification One-use signing completion Service-specific withdrawal Superseding build approval Window and targeted withdrawal Delegation after PI departure Delegation and self-grade exception Examiner conflict exception Full reservation interval Independent public-access right Named embargo exception Participant withdrawal before use Peer-record owner consent Project editor membership Teaching versus commercial use Audit versus marketing purpose Client-specific withdrawal Completed versus partial download Contractor workspace boundary Document-class signature authority Dual approval for bulk export Purpose and one-use delivery Representative address-change scope 0/02/02/00/02/1*2/21/02/2 1/02/02/02/02/0*2/22/12/2 0/02/02/00/02/0*0/1*0/02/2 2/12/02/02/12/22/1*2/12/2 2/12/02/02/12/20/0*2/22/2 2/02/02/02/02/22/22/02/2 2/02/02/02/22/02/22/02/2 2/02/02/02/12/1*2/22/02/2 0/02/02/02/12/22/22/12/2 0/02/02/02/01/2*2/20/02/2 1/02/02/00/12/22/22/12/2 2/02/02/02/02/20/0*2/02/2 2/02/02/02/02/12/1*2/02/2 2/02/02/01/02/1*2/22/02/0 2/02/02/02/02/11/2*2/02/1 2/02/02/02/02/1*2/22/02/2 2/02/02/02/12/20/0*2/02/2 2/02/02/02/02/20/0*2/02/2 2/02/02/02/12/20/0*2/02/2 2/02/02/01/11/20/0*2/02/2 2/02/02/02/02/20/0*2/02/2 2/02/02/02/02/1*1/0*2/22/2 2/12/02/02/02/1*2/0*2/12/2 1/02/02/01/01/00/0*2/12/2 2/02/02/02/02/20/1*2/02/2 2/02/02/02/02/22/22/02/2 2/02/02/02/02/21/1*2/02/2 2/12/02/02/22/22/22/12/2 2/02/02/02/02/20/1*2/02/2 1/02/02/01/02/10/0*1/02/2 2/02/02/02/02/1*0/0*2/02/2 1/02/02/02/02/22/22/02/1 2/02/02/02/02/22/22/02/0 2/02/02/01/02/22/22/02/2 0/02/02/02/11/0*1/2*0/02/2 2/02/02/02/02/22/22/12/2 2/02/02/02/12/20/2*2/02/2 2/02/02/02/02/22/1*2/02/0 2/22/02/02/22/20/0*2/22/2 2/02/02/02/12/02/22/02/2 All correctAll blockedAll allowedMixedUnavailable* Figure 4: All forty test scenarios and eight configurations against the released reference. Each cell shows lawful completions and forbidden effects out of two contexts each. An asterisk marks at least one unavailable output. The full 1,280 test decisions are retained. The two lawful contexts may establish different valid authorization paths. rately recorded. The analysis covers all six unordered interface contrasts for each model and seed. Lawful comple- tion differences are grouped into forty scenario clusters. A 10,000-draw scenario bootstrap de- scribes cohort sensitivity. An exact cluster sign-flip test assumes independent, exchangeable cluster dif- ferences. Holm adjustment covers all 36 contrasts within each reference scope. Twenty-one of the 36 are significant at 0.05, including all eighteen con- trasts involving unconstrained structured review. Only one of the six direct-to-schema contrasts is 17 0255075100 Inputs with decision errors (%) Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-27B Safeguard Granite Nemotron PolicyGuard NeMo Qwen3Guard Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-27B Safeguard Granite Nemotron PolicyGuard NeMo Qwen3Guard Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-27B Safeguard Granite Nemotron PolicyGuard NeMo Qwen3Guard Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-27B Safeguard Granite Nemotron PolicyGuard NeMo Qwen3Guard Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-27B Safeguard Granite Nemotron PolicyGuard NeMo Qwen3Guard 29 2/2011/20 0 0/2020/20 0 0/2020/20 64 6/2016/20 126 12/2019/20 168 16/2016/20 55 5/2015/20 20 20/2020/20 1 0/1211/12 0 0/1212/12 0 0/1212/12 13 1/129/12 82 8/1212/12 96 9/129/12 1 1/1212/12 9 9/1212/12 0 0/1212/12 0 0/1212/12 0 0/1212/12 31 3/1211/12 1111 11/1211/12 23 0/121/12 2 2/1212/12 12 12/1212/12 23 2/2017/20 0 0/2020/20 0 0/2020/20 22 2/2018/20 1512 15/2019/20 922 9/209/20 31 3/2019/20 19 19/2020/20 22 2/1614/16 0 0/1616/16 0 0/1616/16 51 5/1615/16 1211 12/1615/16 138 13/1611/16 32 3/1614/16 12 12/1616/16 Payments Clinical Software Research Documents ForbiddenLawful Incorrect approvalFalse denialUnavailable Figure 5: The complete original eight-configuration language comparison by domain. Bars show incorrect approvals, false denials and unavailable decisions. Segment labels are case counts. The right columns report forbidden effects and lawful completions. The matched interface study is a separate condition set on the same inputs. significant. Seed repetitions do not increase the number of independent scenarios. Nominal request- wise McNemar results are retained in the analysis artifact but do not replace clustered inference. Anal- ysis code was prepared during collection without examining scores. F Reporting Resolution and Reviewer Selection The reporting comparison projects the same audited records onto smaller field sets. Forbidden effects and lawful completions already expose structured 18 ConfigurationEngineCorrectIncorrect approvalsFalse denialsUnavailable Qwen3.5-9BOpenFGA823/1,181258/436100/7450/1,181 Cedar20/343/1211/220/34 Qwen3.5-27BOpenFGA1,170/1,1811/43610/7450/1,181 Cedar34/340/120/220/34 SafeguardOpenFGA996/1,18111/436168/7456/1,181 Cedar27/341/126/220/34 Table 6: Complete native-test decisions with engine and reference-conditional denominators. Unavailable outputs remain in every relevant total and are distinct from false denials. The six Safeguard unavailable responses are output-limit terminations, five on lawful inputs and one on a forbidden input. 0255075100 Queries (%) 11/22 Permit 9/12 Deny 22/22 Permit 12/12 Deny 16/22 Permit 11/12 Deny 645/745 Permit 178/436 Deny 735/745 Permit 435/436 Deny 572/745 (5) Permit 424/436 (1) Deny Cedar Qwen3.5-9B Cedar Qwen3.5-27B Cedar Safeguard OpenFGA Qwen3.5-9B OpenFGA Qwen3.5-27B OpenFGA Safeguard Correct / NReference CorrectFalse denialIncorrect approvalUnavailable Figure 6: Original single-reviewer judgments by engine and reference permission on the complete native test. Gray marks unavailable outputs. Correct counts and denominators appear at right. reviewâs low lawful completion. Availability iden- tifies the output-contract defect, while request iden- tities establish regressions after aggregate improve- ment. Complete comparable logs from another evaluation framework can support the same anal- ysis. With eighty lawful inputs, direct success on sixty and schema review success on 71 permit an intersection of 51 to sixty. Lost old successes can therefore range from zero to nine. The observed intersection is 58, giving two losses and thirteen gains. This standard set bound motivates retaining identities without introducing a new metric. F.1 All ordered cached compositions The fifteen conditions contain three singles, six ordered pairs and six ordered triples. Later mod- els are reached only after available ALLOW from earlier models. Routing never uses the source ref- erence. A parsed BLOCK or unavailable response prevents approval. With fixed saved outputs, the ac- cepted set is order-invariant, while reached failures, calls and token selections can differ. These are counterfactual selections of archived independent responses, not live sequential inference or business execution. Qwen3.5-9B followed by Qwen3.5-27B removes 260 incorrect approvals and loses eight lawful approvals. The reverse removes none rela- tive to Qwen3.5-27B and loses 109. Qwen3.5-27B followed by Safeguard removes one and loses 171, comprising 166 usable BLOCK and five unavail- able responses. Safeguard followed by Qwen3.5- 27B removes twelve and loses two. Adding the third reviewer to their pair loses another 84 law- ful approvals without further observed protection. Conjunctionâs monotonicity is constructed. The particular error overlap and token selection are em- 19 ModelSeedRetainedLostGainedNet changeAdjustedp Qwen3.5-27B07312+11.000000 Qwen3.5-27B17213+21.000000 Qwen3.5-27B27222+01.000000 Qwen3.5-9B056113+120.069824 Qwen3.5-9B141027+270.000040 Qwen3.5-9B26563-31.000000 Table 7: All direct-to-schema lawful-request transitions in the repeated study. Each row contains eighty lawful requests from forty scenarios. Adjustedpvalues use the complete 36-contrast family rather than only these six comparisons. Reporting viewObserved signalSupported repair judgment Forbidden effects onlyStructured and schema review both have zeroTies prevention, without measuring retained lawful work Add lawful completionStructured ten, schema review 71 Shows restored utility, without attributing the difference to output failures Add availability and raw out- put Structured has 125 unavailable decisions, schema review zero Identifies the observed output-contract defect and its repair Add matched request identi- ties Direct to schema review loses two lawful suc- cesses and gains thirteen Rejects full task-set preservation despite im- proved aggregate outcomes Table 8: A reporting-resolution ablation on fixed observed records. The first three rows compare structured and schema review. The last compares direct and schema review. These summaries are recoverable from complete matched logs and are not new metrics or restrictions on earlier frameworks. pirical. The illustrative count loss is C = rU + D + λ o T/10 6 + λ i P/10 6 . HereUcounts incorrect approvals andDcounts all lawful nonapprovals, including usable false denials and unavailable reviews.TandPare selected out- put and input tokens. The cost of one lawful non- approval is normalized to one,ris the relative cost of an incorrect approval, andλ o ,λ i are costs per million tokens in those units. Incorrect-approval and availability caps are separate feasibility con- straints. For Qwen3.5-27B versus its Safeguard pair,U,Dchange from 1,10 to 0,181. Thus the zero-token-price break-even isr = 171for this test mixture. The Qwen3.5-27B-first token incre- ments are 941,864 output and 1,783,862 input to- kens. Model-specific cost must instead weight each selected model separately. Neither token totals nor calls measure actual future latency or serving prices. If forbidden requests have deployment frequency Ï, the conditional zero-token-price loss is ÏrU/448 + (1â Ï)D/767. The pairâs break-even ratio becomes((1â Ï)/Ï)171· 448/767 . Transporting these condi- tional error rates to another deployment is an as- sumption. Task severity or mandatory lawful cases can also change selection. The full release retains a 720-cell cost grid span- ning six severity ratios, five output prices, three input prices, four incorrect-approval caps and two availability caps. A 2,880-cell grid additionally spans four class prevalences. Every tie and infea- sible cell is retained. These are post hoc selection illustrations, not independent deployment valida- tion. Caps of zero, one, twelve and 448 incorrect approvals admit eight, eleven, fourteen and fif- teen conditions when availability is unrestricted. Requiring no unavailable decisions leaves zero, three, three and four. A joint zero-error and zero- unavailability criterion is therefore infeasible in this candidate set. Qwen3.5-9BbeforeQwen3.5-27Bsaves 880,080 selected output tokens, or 24.96%, relative to Qwen3.5-27B alone, but loses 109 lawful approvals and selects 2,087,957 extra input tokens.Its output-price break-even is (109 + 2.087957λ i )/0.880080in the count-loss units. When output prices dominate, even a triple can minimize the assumed loss despite worse preservation. UnderU = 0,r = 1000,λ o = 1000 andλ i = 0, Qwen3.5-9B then Safeguard then 20 Composition Incorrect approvals /448 Lawful approvals /767 Unavailable /1,215 Additional cached consultations Qwen3.5-9B26165600 Qwen3.5-27B175700 Safeguard1258860 Qwen3.5-9Bâ Qwen3.5-27B16480917 Qwen3.5-9Bâ Safeguard115035917 Qwen3.5-27Bâ Qwen3.5-9B16480758 Qwen3.5-27Bâ Safeguard05865758 Safeguardâ Qwen3.5-9B115036600 Safeguardâ Qwen3.5-27B05866600 Qwen3.5-9Bâ Qwen3.5-27Bâ Safeguard050241,566 Qwen3.5-9Bâ Safeguardâ Qwen3.5-27B050251,431 Qwen3.5-27Bâ Qwen3.5-9Bâ Safeguard050241,407 Qwen3.5-27Bâ Safeguard â Qwen3.5-9B050251,344 Safeguardâ Qwen3.5-9Bâ Qwen3.5-27B050261,114 Safeguardâ Qwen3.5-27Bâ Qwen3.5-9B050261,186 Table 9: Every ordered cached composition. Qwen3.5-9B denotes Qwen3.5-9B, Qwen3.5-27B denotes Qwen3.5- 27B, and Safeguard denotes GPT-OSS Safeguard. Each first stage reaches all 1,215 cases. Reviewer order preserves the final accepted set but can change reached unavailable responses and consultation counts. These are replay outcomes, not new model calls. Qwen3.5-27B is selected with 265 lawful nonap- provals and five unavailable decisions. This is an assumption-dependent result, not a deployment recommendation. Independent reconstruction verifies all 3,645 original responses, 18,225 routed records and 720 cost-grid cells. The archived per-model and class- conditional files retain selected input and output tokens. Early audit-reader errors concern the older preserved gridâs schema and do not alter model responses or the final immutable analysis. G Paired Retention and Cohort Sensitivity All comparisons reuse completed predictions and observed effects. The original eight configurations yield 56 directed comparisons of the same lawful test requests. The matched four interfaces yield twelve directed comparisons. We verify the shared request identities and scenario membership within each block. Different original prompts remain con- figuration comparisons. The blocks are not joined into a matched causal experiment. Direct-to-schema review retains 58 lawful suc- cesses, loses two, gains thirteen and leaves seven unsupported by either interface. Exact request-wise McNemar givesp = 0.007385, but assumes inde- pendent requests even though two lawful inputs share each scenario. Our primary sensitivity analy- sis therefore resamples the forty whole scenarios with replacement, preserving both contexts. With 10,000 draws and seed 39039, the net completion change is 13.75 percentage points with a percentile interval of 5.00 to 23.75 points. A paired scenario sign-flip test swaps both law- ful outcomes together. Nine scenarios have positive 21 Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-27B Nemotron Granite NeMo PolicyGuard Qwen3Guard Safeguard After Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-27B Nemotron Granite NeMo PolicyGuard Qwen3Guard Safeguard Before 0 / 0+15 / -0+12 / -1+9 / -5+7 / -0+10 / -29+15 / -0+15 / -0 +0 / -150 / 0+0 / -4+0 / -11+0 / -8+0 / -34+0 / -0+0 / -0 +1 / -12+4 / -00 / 0+3 / -10+2 / -6+1 / -31+4 / -0+4 / -0 +5 / -9+11 / -0+10 / -30 / 0+8 / -5+6 / -29+11 / -0+11 / -0 +0 / -7+8 / -0+6 / -2+5 / -80 / 0+4 / -30+8 / -0+8 / -0 +29 / -10+34 / -0+31 / -1+29 / -6+30 / -40 / 0+34 / -0+34 / -0 +0 / -15+0 / -0+0 / -4+0 / -11+0 / -8+0 / -340 / 0+0 / -0 +0 / -15+0 / -0+0 / -4+0 / -11+0 / -8+0 / -34+0 / -00 / 0 â80 â60 â40 â20 0 20 40 60 80 Net lawful requests gained Figure 7: All ordered transitions among the original eight configurations, using the same eighty lawful inputs. Cells show gained / lost requests and color shows net change. This compares complete configurations, not isolated model factors. Both gains and losses occur in nine of the twenty-eight unordered pairs. net changes, one negative and thirty zero. Enumer- ating the 1,024 sign assignments of the ten nonzero scenarios gives a two-sidedp = 0.015625. This exploratory test assumes independent scenario clus- ters and exchangeable directions under the null. The tests are unadjusted across comparisons. They describe this cohort and do not measure repeated- model variability or new-scenario generalization. Excluding the two unresolved issuer contexts leaves 78 lawful requests, with 58 direct and 69 schema successes. Losses and gains remain two and thirteen. The bootstrap interval is 5.06 to 24.68 percentage points and the sign-flip result is un- changed. The clinical handoff regression retains its time-normalization flag. These results keep refer- ence uncertainty separate from execution and re- peatability. H Bounded Supporting Studies and Archive The following studies constrain interpretation but are not pooled with the primary language or full native tests. Their complete sources, prompts, out- puts, figures and verification files remain in the versioned experiment archives. Structural calibration. Twelve executable out- comes and controlled availability of actor, reviewer and owner illustrate capability removal and neces- sary participation. Seven deliberately faulty check- ers share the positive authority profile yet fail dis- tinct grant-validity probes. These are seeded cali- bration faults, not discovered product vulnerabili- ties. Positive participation alone does not establish that a supplied grant covers the executed effect. 22 Strong-model and budget results. Thinking conditions with zero unauthorized effects remain in the archive alongside false denials, unavailable outputs and timeout evidence. In the earlier eighty- input deployment module, 27B thinking at 4K out- put has zero unauthorized test effects, 27/32 lawful completions and nine unavailable decisions under direct review. Extraction has 0/32 lawful comple- tions and 64 unavailable outputs. The larger 16K condition has 32/32 direct and 31/32 extraction completions, with zero unauthorized effects and zero and two unavailable outputs. Context and deadline also change, so this is not a pure token- cap effect. Nonthinking plus grammar changes rea- soning and decoding jointly. None of these known- input repetitions adds new language scenarios. Native workflow limits and negative findings. The original Bench-Corp/OpenAPPA cohort re- peats five tasks and adds controlled approve/deny interventions. Complete native utility and attack- success scores already identify the observed task failures.An out-of-request beneficiary coun- tercheck has no incremental detection benefit over the complete original metric vector and is not an au- thorization bypass because the fixture approves it. Conditional-review disagreements are not executed attacks. These negative conclusions are retained (Archestra, n.d.a). A separate OpenAPPA runtime v0.31.1 track uses actual native attention and explicit ap- prove/deny callbacks over eight pairs and four ordi- nary controls. It is distinct from the original source scenarios. Attention needs renewed approval per call, while persistent exclusion can prohibit repeti- tion after approval. The callback is not an external validity oracle disguised as a native check (Arches- tra, n.d.b). The bounded BashArena experiment contains four tasks under open and defer-to-trusted condi- tions, eight episodes in total. It measures native task and side-status outcomes, not a designated ap- prover or red-team success rate. Context overflow, monitor fallback and time-limit failures remain sep- arate availability evidence (Eccentricity, n.d.). Repair and information controls.Explicit pair- ing as repair feedback does not consistently im- prove selection. Frozen effect-preview interven- tions introduce permission errors and satisfy none of their registered improvement rules. All six earlier fixed-rule selections fail the nonconstant- signature criterion, while a separate thinking Qwen3.5-27B control correctly handles all 64 struc- tured test inputs. Source-locality controls retain their separate conditions. These results are not omitted because the final matched-interface repair improves aggregate outcomes. Archive map. The release separates benchmark inputs, primary model responses, reference pro- grams, execution fixtures and analysis scripts. Source identities and immutable manifests link each analysis to its inputs. Historical calibration studies are archived separately from the primary experiments. The supplementary material retains their relevant findings, while operational records remain in the artifact package. 23