@inproceedings{summers-etal-2026-environment, title = "Environment Steering: Using Data Flow Control to Improve Agent Utility and Safety", author = "Summers, Charlie and Raghunath, Prajwal and Pai, Aaditya and Kulkarni, Mayur and Zhang, Zhuo and Kennedy, Oliver and Wu, Eugene", editor = "Kamalloo, Ehsan and Gontier, Nicolas and Rozanov, Nikolai and Hashemzadeh, Maryam and Arora, Akhil", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop for {RE}search on Agent Language Models ({REALM} 2026)", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.realm-1.59/", pages = "856--880", ISBN = "979-8-89176-485-9" }