Formal guarantees for composing local analyses

Establish formal guarantees for combining local proof-harness analyses when extending proof-harness engineering from individual functions to entire software systems.

Background

The paper proposes extending agentic proof-harness engineering beyond individual functions to entire software systems. Such an extension would require agents to construct verification environments for multiple program units and exploit information about their interactions to support system-level reasoning.

The authors explicitly identify the absence of formal guarantees for combining these local analyses as a key unresolved research challenge. The problem concerns ensuring that system-level conclusions remain trustworthy when independently generated or locally validated analyses are composed.