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A new step helps AI agents end a deadlock in 5 of 5 tests

The authors say an LLM with no such step did not end the deadlock in 5 tests.

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Escaping a deadlock Same deadlock, same call budget: LLM steering only escaped 0 of 5 runs; atomic purge plus strike escaped 5 of 5, with zero strike calls. Five runs each, Fisher p = 0.008. Escaping a deadlock LLM steering only Atomic purge + strike Same Same 0 5 runs each · Fisher p = 0.008 0 of 5 5 of 5 CALL BUDGET STRIKE CALLS
In a deadlock test, steering by the LLM alone never escaped; purging context and sending a fixed recovery message escaped every time.

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  1. Constitutional Gating and Deterministic Recovery for Multi-Agent LLM Negotiation: Ablations Against a Stateful Adversarial Gatekeeperarxiv.org
AI MATTER · NEWS · AI MATTER · NEWS ·9 OCT2026

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