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  "abstract": "An agent with tools can refund the wrong customer at 3 a.m. and leave no proof of who approved it. Agents built on large language models now act. They call tools, move data, and change state. An agent that acts can fail in ways a chatbot cannot: it can hallucinate a tool argument, follow an injected instruction, or pass a false fact from one agent to another.\n\nThis paper describes a control plane that sits between a language model planner and tool execution. Every proposed action is checked against declarative policies before it runs. High stakes actions require human approval. Every decision is recorded in a tamper evident audit log that can be verified after the fact.\n\nThe work is evaluated with three open components built by the author: agent-governance, tool-truth, and gate-bypass-bench. Results reported here use only numbers verified from the public repositories on 25 October 2026.",
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  "affiliations": [
    "Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Institute of Information Technology"
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      "name": "Zohaib Qamar"
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  "published": "2026-10-25",
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  "title": "No Action Without Proof: A Control Plane with Verifiable Constraints, Trust Aware Coordination, and Tamper Evident Accountability",
  "title_text": "No Action Without Proof: A Control Plane with Verifiable Constraints, Trust Aware Coordination, and Tamper Evident Accountability",
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