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From Version Conflicts to Decision Conflicts: Selective Revalidation for Long-Running AI Agents

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Long-running AI agents may read state, reason, wait for tools or human approval, and perform an external action much later. The state that justified the action can change in the meantime. For example, after an agent proposes an 80 GBP refund under a limit of 100, a customer-name change affects only presentation metadata, a new limit of 90 still permits the refund, a limit of 50 invalidates it, and a refund issued by another worker must prevent a duplicate. Standard optimistic concurrency control and version checks can detect that previously read state has changed, but by themselves do not dete

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