@inproceedings{mou-etal-2026-toolsafe, title = "{T}ool{S}afe: Enhancing Tool Invocation Safety of {LLM}-based agents via Proactive Step-level Guardrail and Feedback", author = "Mou, Yutao and Xue, Zhangchi and Li, Lijun and Liu, Peiyang and Zhang, Shikun and Ye, Wei and Shao, Jing", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1850/", pages = "37125--37153", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }