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In AI agents with inherited memory, the mere availability of provenance links does not ensure their use; rather, verification allocation is causally driven by exogenous working plans and the semantic content of the memories. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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To determine how artificial intelligence agents allocate limited verification resources when inheriting consolidated memory records linked to provenance sources.

August 27, 2026Open Access

Verification Allocation in Inherited Agent Memory: Provenance Availability Is Not Provenance Use

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KNKazuki NakayashikiPPG Industries (United States)

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Controlled evaluation demonstrates that plans and content steer provenance verification allocation in inherited agent memory systems, indicating availability alone does not prevent corrupted actions.

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To determine how artificial intelligence agents allocate limited verification resources when inheriting consolidated memory records linked to provenance sources.
Evaluated 16 models across 11 organizations using 10 prospectively specified experiments, randomized working-plan assignments, and a disjoint-seed replication run.
Applied factorial interventions across 1,440 episodes holding clause structure, register, and numeric content constant to test semantic influences on verification.
Measured corrupted-direction decision rates across 150 trials and analyzed 360 chain-generations in a 6-generation memory consolidation pipeline.
Assigning an exogenous working plan causally redirected verification credit allocation by 84.7 points.
Decision-relevant constraints suppressed verification by 46.0 points at fixed length and showed a 31.9-point effect across 1,440 factorial episodes.
Randomizing provenance delivery reduced corrupted decision rates from 139/150 to 3/150, whereas natural complete deletion of negative content occurred in 0/360 chain-generations.

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Kazuki Nakayashiki (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8fe9b910c91c1e9262196c https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22102676

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Controlled evaluation demonstrates that plans and content steer provenance verification allocation in inherited agent memory systems, indicating availability alone does not prevent corrupted actions.

Verification Allocation in Inherited Agent Memory: Provenance Availability Is Not Provenance Use

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