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Observability for Delegated Execution in Agentic AI Systems

Abhinav Mishra, Kumar Sharad

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Published 2026-06-08 · First seen 2026-06-09

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Delegation-scoped execution is not identifiable from standard observables: audit logs and execution traces can be identical under multiple incompatible delegation assignments. This gap is especially acute in LLM-based agentic systems, where agents dynamically select tools, vary execution sequences across runs for the same instruction, and spawn cooperating sub-agents. These dynamics fragment and interleave traces, making delegation-scoped reconstruction from causal structure alone structurally underdetermined. Although individual actions are authorized and logged, existing audit, tracing, and security schemas lack the semantics to reconstruct what actions occurred under a given delegation across heterogeneous systems. We focus on delegation-scoped attribution and access/share footprint reconstruction, not intent inference or reasoning reconstruction. We present an agent-aware observability substrate consisting of a lightweight gateway and a common information model that binds delegation context at execution time. This enables reliable cross-tool delegation-scoped reconstruction and direct forensic queries without heuristic time-window correlation.

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@article{mishra2026observability,
  title = {Observability for Delegated Execution in Agentic AI Systems},
  author = {Abhinav Mishra and Kumar Sharad},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Delegation-scoped execution is not identifiable from standard observables: audit logs and execution traces can be identical under multiple incompatible delegation assignments. This gap is especially acute in LLM-based agentic systems, where agents dynamically select tools, vary execution sequences across runs for the same instruction, and spawn cooperating sub-agents. These dynamics fragment and interleave traces, making delegation-scoped reconstruction from causal structure alone structurally u},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09692},
  keywords = {cs.CR, cs.AI},
  eprint = {2606.09692},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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