What we have learned at OpenShell applying formal methods to control AI agents

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An intro to using formal methods to reason about permission changes in long-running AI agents. The first, a very general check- asks if the candidate (proposed) policy can do anything that the reference (safe) policy cannot do. Today, the OpenShell policy prover encodes the following expert queries which run on every proposed policy before approval.

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