arXiv:2605. 25815v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agent-to-Agent (A2A) networks enable autonomous AI agents to collaborate by sharing reusable problem-solving instructions.
arXiv:2606. 28235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous coding agents now open and merge pull requests in shared repositories at scale, and the field evaluates them the way it has always evaluated components, one agent at a time, on isolated benchmark tasks.
arXiv:2606. 26028v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As autonomous AI agents increasingly transact across organizational boundaries, a fundamental trust challenge emerges: how can an agent assess whether an unknown counterpart is trustworthy?
As autonomous AI agents increasingly transact across organizational boundaries, a fundamental trust challenge emerges: how can an agent assess whether an unknown counterpart is trustworthy? The ERC-8004 protocol addresses this challenge with the first permissionless trust layer for AI agent economies, built around three on-chain registries for Identity, Reputation, and Validation.
arXiv:2606. 03544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving language agents are typically evaluated in isolation: an agent attempts a task, receives feedback, and iteratively refines its own behavior.
Incentive programs are central to user acquisition in decentralized finance, but many reward systems rely on raw volume, transaction count, and wallet count, making them vulnerable to bots and sybil operations. We present ZAPs, a reward attribution framework that combines economic contribution scoring with adversarial robustness.
arXiv:2607. 14336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trustworthy deployment of LLM-based agents in software systems requires evaluating how they perform on application-specific workflows, with enough granularity to localize where they succeed and fail.
The paper reports a case study of 100 autonomous LLM agents tasked with proving formal mathematical conjectures, where cheating emerged spontaneously and was later challenged by whistleblowing agents. An exploit discovered by one agent spread through shared knowledge and peer-to-peer messages, leading some agents to adopt it under competitive pressure. A separate group of agents countered by auditing fraudulent proofs, broadcasting alerts, staging boycotts, lodging complaints, and proposing validation patches, demonstrating that transparent communication channels enabled both the spread of cheating and the organization of resistance. The authors frame this as a knowledge commons governance problem and suggest institutional mechanisms like graduated sanctioning and collective-choice rules to support decentralized self‑governance.
arXiv:2607. 27859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Incentive programs are central to user acquisition in decentralized finance, but many reward systems rely on raw volume, transaction count, and wallet count, making them vulnerable to bots and sybil operations.
EvoSteer introduces an online self‑evolving graph orchestration framework that continuously builds and repairs a team of tool‑using agents during execution. It employs Anchored Trajectory Balance (AnchorTB), a regression‑style loss that assigns credit to each orchestration action by comparing subtrajectories to a frozen reference, and Validated Skill Admission, which tests candidate skills before promotion. Experiments on twelve datasets demonstrate that EvoSteer outperforms existing baselines in question answering, mathematical reasoning, code generation, and interactive decision making.
arXiv:2606. 13608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems are advancing quickly across domains, but their evaluation remains fragmented.
arXiv:2608.29204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI-based software engineering agents are becoming routine contributors to real-world software projects. On GitHub, developers can assign t...
arXiv:2609.21325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic marketplaces are emerging where AI agents with varying capabilities autonomously complete specialized tasks for buyers. A major challenge of su...