paperJuly 2026Unreviewed

Janus: a Playground for User-Involved Agentic Permission Management

Natalie Grace Brigham, Eugene Bagdasarian, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner

Abstract

AI agents that autonomously execute tool calls on a user's behalf raise pressing questions about permission management: what role could users play, and what role should they play? Despite many proposed approaches, the user's role in agentic permission management remains under explored. We introduce Janus, a playground system for implementing and evaluating user-involved agentic permission management designs. Janus consists of two components: Janus-Core, a modular agentic system supporting a dive

Cite

@misc{brigham2026janus,
  title = {{Janus: a Playground for User-Involved Agentic Permission Management}},
  author = {Natalie Grace Brigham and Eugene Bagdasarian and Tadayoshi Kohno and Franziska Roesner},
  year = {2026},
  month = jul,
  eprint = {2607.01510},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01510}
}