Journal article
A Stated Limit Is a Forecast: What an Agent Can Truthfully Say About Its Own Permissions, Why the Checkable Part Should Never Come From the Model, and How to Score the Part Only the Model Can Supply
Agent interfaces, skill specifications and disclosure proposals increasingly ask a tool-using language-model agent to tell its user what it may and may not do. The self-explanation literature seems to answer whether such statements can be trusted, and its answer seems to be no. This paper argues…