Ordering Is Not Resolution: What the Instruction Hierarchy Defines, What It Leaves Undefined, and the Same-Tier Conflicts Agent Benchmarks Do Not Separate

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Mahendrakar, P. M. (2026). Ordering Is Not Resolution: What the Instruction Hierarchy Defines, What It Leaves Undefined, and the Same-Tier Conflicts Agent Benchmarks Do Not Separate [Journal article]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22135193

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@misc{lor422026,
  title        = {Ordering Is Not Resolution: What the Instruction Hierarchy Defines, What It Leaves Undefined, and the Same-Tier Conflicts Agent Benchmarks Do Not Separate},
  author       = {Pranay M. Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.22135193},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/articles/42},
  keywords     = {instruction hierarchy, LLM agents, prompt injection, policy conflict, privilege ordering, agent safety, instruction following, evaluation},
  note         = {LOR-00042}
}

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