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ILION: Deterministic Pre-Execution Safety Gates for Agentic AI Systems

arXiv · · RL Ethics

The paper introduces ILION, a deterministic execution gate designed to ensure the safety of autonomous AI agents by classifying proposed actions as either BLOCK or ALLOW. ILION uses a five-component cascade architecture that operates without statistical training, API dependencies, or labeled data. Evaluation against existing text-safety infrastructures demonstrates ILION's superior performance in preventing unauthorized actions, achieving an F1 score of 0.8515 with sub-millisecond latency.