# When the Governor Becomes the Disturbance: Control-Generated Disturbance and Cost-Aware Backoff in Governed Tool-Using Agents

**Published:** October 8, 2026
**Author:** Veronique Ziegler
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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Supervisory governors can interfere with the tool-using agents they regulate. We study this possibility in a controlled file-recovery environment where increases in regulatory intensity trigger experimentally imposed tool failures. A cost-blind governor can turn these failures…

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