Capability Minimization as a Safety Primitive: Risk-Aware Causal Gating for Least-Privilege LLM Agents

In three linesRisk-Aware Causal Gating (RACG) is a framework that decides whether an LLM agent should act, defer, or abstain by combining causal effect estimation with calibrated risk control. RACG models the causal pathway from actions to outcomes and applies thresholds based on counterfactual risk rather than predictive confidence, with distribution-free bounds guaranteeing safety constraints.

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