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Agents2026-09-13 · source-backed
arXiv 2609.11018 organizes agent evaluation around five dimensions of agenticness: environmental interaction, learning and adaptation, autonomy, goal-directed behavior, temporal coherence. It ships the Agent Compendium at agent.duketrustlab.com. Useful mainly as a map of where evaluation is thin, identified per dimension instead of asserted in general.
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arXiv 2608.13417 ran seven frontier models across 36 long-horizon AI R&D tasks and found gains come from competent execution of known approaches, not new ideas. Useful corrective to the "AI scientist" wave. The benchmark number rises because implementation is good, and only pr...
RLHF-instilled neutrality makes models bad at sustaining partisan behavior, which quietly breaks any simulation of political negotiation. This framework reconciles factual grounding with ideological alignment so agents keep their convictions through coalition bargaining. Usefu...
arXiv 2608.03169 preregisters a study varying effort (low vs max) inside GPT-5.6 across 14 confirmatory scenarios from TRIO-20, with matched workplace triads where a prohibited tool call is effective and advertised, effective but only discoverable by inspecting rules, or ineff...
arXiv 2607.25380 sorts memory work by representation (implicit vs explicit), update dynamics (offline vs online), and persistence (short-term vs long-term), then formalizes the mechanisms every system implements ad hoc: memory writing, routing, state transitions, consolidation...
Li, Huo, and Johnson show that one-way message flow between agents produces neither mimicry nor solo behavior but an entirely novel dynamical state, at identical temperature settings. It's conceptual rather than quantitative, but the implication for orchestrator-worker fan-out...
Thinkingbox is an MCP-compatible sandbox with isolated sessions, full execution traces, and outcome evaluation against terminal backend state, carrying 507 policy-conditioned workflows across retail, hospitality, auto insurance, neobank internal IT and consulting support (arXi...
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