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Position, Role or Label? A Controlled Study of Instruction Conflicts in LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.33201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents take instructions from the operator, repository configuration, user, tool results and saved memory, which often conflict. Instruction-hierarchy benchmarks ask whether the higher-ranked source wins, but a source sets position, role and label…

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  1. 2026-10-27 04:00 · arXiv cs.CL
    Position, Role or Label? A Controlled Study of Instruction Conflicts in LLM Agents

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