arXiv · 2610.18326
Jev-Guard: Fast Routing and Auditing Agent Actions over Editable Policy Trees
Abstract
Agent harnesses require a low-latency guardrail model together with customizable audit policies. However, deploying an auto-regressive guardrail model remains challenging: such models incur high inference latency and are often poorly aligned with customized policies. To address these problems, we present Jev-Guard, a unified model for safety classification and policy routing. We further construct a policy tree over which Jev-Guard performs routing, spanning diverse domains including content moderation, cybersecurity, privacy, and legal compliance. Specifically, Jev-Guard first navigates the policy tree to select the applicable audit policy given the caller's audit context, and then performs safety classification conditioned on the retrieved policies. On 7,033 evaluation cases, Jev-Guard achieves 93.72\% safety accuracy, a mean latency of 58ms, and 93.10\% hierarchical routing accuracy. The full routing-and-classification pipeline averages 240ms. Furthermore, we integrate Jev-Guard into the Hermes harness framework. Across agent trajectories, its separate permission gate cuts mean review time per task from 4.80s for an SFT-LLM judge to 1.33s, with no policy violations are observed for either guard.
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Wenbin Hu, Huihao Jing, Haochen Shi, Yuxuan Liu, Changxuan Fan, Sirui Zhang, Kawai Chung, Hanyu Yang, Zhenhuan Wang, Ziyi Chen, Haoran Li, Yangqiu Song. 2026-10-13. Jev-Guard: Fast Routing and Auditing Agent Actions over Editable Policy Trees. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18326
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