Who May Release an Agent's Promise? Standing over Commitments in Multi-Party Chat
arXiv:2610.21203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When an assistant serving a team makes a promise to Alice, who may cancel it? We call this standing: only the creditor (the person owed) or someone the creditor or operator policy authorizes may release a commitment, regardless of rank. In a controlled chat environment we vary who cancels and separate two errors: unauthorized release (obeying someone without standing) and override (executing a released promise). Across six models, smaller open one…