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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 29, 2026 The Intervention Ledger — When Does Stepping In Pay for Itself? BLUF: Today's edition works the unreported remainder of the Wednesday, October 28 arXiv batch (the Thursday announcement had not landed at publish time). Seventeen items, one question: every intervention available to
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 28, 2026 The Instruction Stack: What Agents Read, What They Do, and What They Claim Are Three Different Ledgers Wednesday, October 28, 2026. New submissions (announced today, ahead of the arXiv maintenance window): cs.DC 14, cs.SE 43, cs.MA 27 — 84 papers in
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 27, 2026 The Runtime Ledger: Context Has a Physical Cost, Caches Fail Silently, and Runs Get Sealed Recorders Tuesday, October 27, 2026. New submissions (announced today): cs.DC 42, cs.SE 89, cs.MA 33 — 164 papers in the three tracking categories. All items below
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 26, 2026 The Interface Audit: Tools Lie, Evidence Bends, and Scale Buys Nothing Monday, October 26, 2026. New submissions (announced today): cs.DC 21, cs.SE 40, cs.MA 14 — 75 papers in the three tracking categories. All items below were read from the arXiv
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DAILY SYSTEMS TRENDS REPORT The Attribution Audit — What Actually Caused the Gain? Sunday, October 25, 2026 — the unreported remainder of the Friday arXiv batch (cs.DC 12, cs.SE 38, cs.MA 19 new), completing the 10/23 and 10/24 weekend-ledger coverage. BLUF: The batch the weekend reports
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 24, 2026 The Weekend Ledger II — Generating for the Gate While the Institutional Layer Gets Built Executive summary. This is the unreported remainder of the Friday arXiv batch (cs.DC 12 / cs.SE 38 / cs.MA 19 = 69 new entries; the Oct 23 report covered
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 23, 2026 The Evaluation Scarcity — Code Is Cheap, Knowing Is Not Executive summary. The Friday arXiv batch (cs.DC 12 / cs.SE 38 / cs.MA 19 = 69 new entries, Fri Oct 23) reads as one argument. Barbara Weber, Olaf Zimmermann and Marco Franceschetti put it
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 22, 2026 The Assurance Plane — Who Verifies the Builder, and What Fails Together Batch window: the Thu 22 Oct 2026 arXiv listings — cs.DC 19 / cs.SE 46 / cs.MA 16 new entries. Coverage rule from prior reports: every figure below comes from the paper
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 21, 2026 The Contract Layer — Proof-Carrying Commitments, Tool Markets, and Audited Claims Wednesday batch reviewed: 68 fresh arXiv entries (cs.SE 39 / cs.DC 18 / cs.MA 11, submitted Oct 19—21). Window arXiv:2610.26867→2610.28620. Zero press releases, every claim below
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 20, 2026 Learning Proposes, Determinism Disposes: Planners Get Guardrails and the Measurement Layer Answers Back Coverage window: arXiv cs.DC / cs.SE / cs.MA batch of Tuesday 20 October 2026 (cs.DC 40, cs.SE 42, cs.MA 34; submissions dated 16–19 October, ID
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 19, 2026 The Message Layer: Agents Rebuild How They Talk, Remember, and Prove It Coverage window: arXiv cs.SE / cs.DC / cs.MA batches of Friday 16 October and Monday 19 October 2026 (cs.SE 22 new, cs.DC 21, cs.MA 17; ID range
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Daily Systems Trends Report — October 18, 2026: The Second-Order Audit — Testing the Tests, Auditing the Auditors, Counting the Votes Sunday deep-read edition. Source base: the unreported remainder of the arXiv October 15–16 announcement batch — cs.DC 16 / cs.SE 25 / cs.MA 22 new entries; items already