AI RESEARCH

The Provenance Paradox in Multi-Agent LLM Routing: Delegation Contracts and Attested Identity in LDP

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2603.18043v1 Announce Type: cross Multi-agent LLM systems delegate tasks across trust boundaries, but current protocols do not govern delegation under unverifiable quality claims. We show that when delegates can inflate self-reported quality scores, quality-based routing produces a provenance paradox: it systematically selects the worst delegates, performing worse than random.