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The Cost of Governance: Measuring Overhead in Toggleable LLM Agent Safety Layers

How much time governance checks add to each API call. Measured results will follow an archived replication run.

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Preprint pending
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Michael Turon
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github.com/CAREInst/governance-overhead-harness-public
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Pending replication

Measured results will appear here once the replication run is archived (gate L12).

Being prepared for submission to MLSys 2027.

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Michael Turon (2026). The Cost of Governance: Measuring Overhead in Toggleable LLM Agent Safety Layers. Preprint pending. CARE Institute (Center of Agentic Research and Education). https://careinstitute.ai/research/cost-of-governance/
@misc{turon2026cost,
  author       = {Turon, Michael},
  title        = {{The Cost of Governance: Measuring Overhead in Toggleable LLM Agent Safety Layers}},
  year         = {2026},
  note         = {Preprint pending},
  howpublished = {CARE Institute (Center of Agentic Research and Education)},
  url          = {https://careinstitute.ai/research/cost-of-governance/}
}