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constitution-overlay: Kustomize-style YAML rule layering with executor-side halt-on-reject for LLM agents

2026Arnold Wender

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Title: constitution-overlay: Kustomize-style YAML rule layering with executor-side halt-on-reject for LLM agents
Authors: Arnold Wender
Venue: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2026
Canonical: doi:10.5281/zenodo.19773588
URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19773588
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ABSTRACT
A small, framework-agnostic Python library implementing the constitution + corrections overlay pattern for agentic systems. Provides Kustomize-style merge of YAML rule layers and executor-side enforcement via a halt-on-reject decorator that LLMs cannot bypass.