Diagnosing Live Within-Policy Instruction Conflicts in LLM Agents with Witnessed Resolution Profiles
LLM agents are governed by long-lived natural-language prompt policies, but individually reasonable standing rules can interact in uninspected ways. We study live intra-policy rule-conflict diagnosis: finding rule pairs inside a single prompt policy that can co-govern a realistic state, and measuring how models resolve that pressure in responses or tool actions. We introduce WIRE, a Witnessed Intra-policy Rule Evaluation pipeline. WIRE extracts source-grounded rules, encodes them as PyRule clauses, uses satisfiability checks to retain same-surface hard-collision candidates, realizes those candidates as concrete co-governance witnesses, and judges model outputs against the original source-rule text. Across six public prompt policies, WIRE extracts 276 source rules and 560 atomic clauses, classifies 30,944 within-policy clause-pair comparisons, retains 170 encoded hard-collision candidate source-rule pairs, and realizes them as 1,402 concrete witnesses. In policy-only evaluation, these witnesses yield 13,335 post- generation trials where both source rules govern and both compliance labels are judgeable. Only 35.4% fall in joint compliance; 64.6% violate at least one governed source rule. These profiles are conditional diagnostics for WIRE-selected candidates, not deployment-frequency or causal excess failure estimates, but they reveal distinct policy, model, and tool-action resolution patterns.
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