RePolicy: Reinforcement Learning for Safety-Policy Invocation in Agent Safeguards
Houcheng Jiang, Boxuan Zhang, Qiyong Zhong, Junfeng Fang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He
Abstract
Safeguarding language model agents requires assessing complete execution trajectories under context-dependent safety policies. Existing policy-aware safeguards mainly rely on prompting or supervised fine-tuning, limiting their ability to adapt to unseen trajectories and changing policy contexts. We propose RePolicy, an agent safeguard that learns safety-policy invocation through reinforcement learning. Given an agent trajectory and a dynamic policy library, RePolicy invokes the applicable policy and uses its content to produce a policy-grounded rationale and safety judgment. We construct PolicyTraj-20K to support supervised initialization, followed by GRPO with verifiable rewards and policy-context perturbation. Experiments across six agent safety benchmarks show that RePolicy achieves strong overall safety-detection performance and robust policy invocation under varying policy contexts.
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