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MasterControl Seventeen Every Time

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MasterControl AI Lab proposes a governed enterprise-analytics architecture in which an LLM only interprets a question and a deterministic policy selects and runs a pre-approved analytical program that returns results and evidence. Across 440 runs, none of 330 runtime-planning episodes met the full answer-and-evidence contract on every dataset, while the policy-executed analyzer succeeded on all 110 runs. The authors caution that this is configuration-specific, not a general lesson about runtime agents.

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[Submitted on 2 Sep 2026]

Title:MasterControl Seventeen Every Time

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Abstract:We study a governed approach to enterprise analytics: a language model interprets the question, while deterministic policy selects and runs a pre-approved analytical program that returns both results and evidence. We show that this restriction can remain expressive within a defined analytical class, using relational operations plus aggregation, comparison, windows, ranking, and similarity. Fixed meaning, policy, data, and execution rules also make results replayable. Across 440 runs, three 8B models generated SQL and selected tools at runtime, while Qwen3-8B interpreted intent only and policy executed the approved program. None of 330 runtime-planning episodes matched the full answer-and-evidence contract across all test datasets; the policy-executed analyzer matched 110 of 110. This is a configuration-specific result, not evidence that runtime agents cannot succeed under other designs.

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Cite as: arXiv:2609.03209 [cs.AI]

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.03209

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From: Viktoria Rojkova [view email] [v1] Wed, 2 Sep 2026 22:49:35 UTC (12 KB)

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  • Governed analytics uses deterministic policy to choose and run pre-approved programs rather than letting an LLM plan tool use at runtime.
  • The supported analytical class includes relational operations, aggregation, comparison, windows, ranking, and similarity.
  • None of 330 runtime-planning runs satisfied the complete answer-and-evidence contract; all 110 policy-executed runs succeeded.
  • The authors stress that this is a configuration-specific result and not evidence against all runtime-agent designs.

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