From Evidence to Effect: Authority Semantics and Runtime Infrastructure for Stateful Agents

Abstract

Stateful agents reuse artifacts after producing executions and permissions change. We formalize authority-sufficient observations and durable effects bound to execution and material identities. WTB implements this interface through runtime adapters, shared evidence, and transactional publication/recovery. Six study families separate the mechanism from its integration. Raw and typed evidence both solve 32/32 authority cases, with model-dependent planning effects. Fixed-intent enforcement blocks six unsafe proposals and executes 12 eligible authorized intents. Complete controls match WTB's capability. Paid integration yields 176/210 accepted benchmark-source stages, including 19/30 publication stages, recovery on 8/8 primary SWE repositories, and the most complete continuous trajectories on each of three source tasks. The findings connect authority information, effect admission, and infrastructure reuse in stateful agents.