The article reviews the emergence of Agentic AI, covering its evolution, theoretical foundations, working principles, and architectural aspects. It surveys recent scholarly contributions across various domains, highlighting real‑world applications, current research findings, and existing challenges. The review also proposes a framework for stakeholder adoption and outlines future research directions to guide researchers and practitioners.
By AKM Bahalul Haque, Al Amin Islam Ridoy, Mohammad Rayhan, Ivan Porres
arXiv:2606. 04455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current AI benchmarks evaluate agents on task execution within human-designed workflows.
By Xinyu Lu, Tianshu Wang, Pengbo Wang, zujie wen, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou, Boxi Cao, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun
The paper introduces MASTIF, a Multi‑Agent System TestIng Framework, to evaluate how different protocols, frameworks, and libraries combine into an Agentic Web solution. It presents a baseline assessment using 3 large language models, 3 protocols, and 4 agent implementation frameworks across 300 Mind2Web benchmark tasks. The results show that task‑specific technology stacks can improve completion rates, efficiency, and social value stability while reducing verbosity and task time.
By Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Diogo Cortiz
Agentick is a unified benchmark for sequential decision‑making agents that evaluates RL, LLM, VLM, hybrid, and human agents on 37 procedurally generated tasks across six capability categories, four difficulty levels, and five observation modalities via a single Gymnasium‑compatible interface. It includes a Coding API, oracle reference policies, pre‑built SFT datasets, a composable agent harness, and a live leaderboard. An evaluation of 27 configurations and over 90,000 episodes shows no single approach dominates, with GPT‑5 mini leading overall, PPO excelling in planning and multi‑agent tasks, and the reasoning harness boosting LLM performance by 3‑10×, while ASCII observations outperform natural language.
By Roger Creus Castanyer, Pablo Samuel Castro, Glen Berseth
The paper surveys the evolving field of agent skill evaluation and evolution, emphasizing the shift from isolated skill creation to automated, evaluation-driven development. It categorizes skill evolution into four paradigms—execution feedback, trajectory distillation, compression, and reinforcement learning—and analyzes six skill-centric benchmark categories to highlight gaps and trade-offs. The authors outline open research directions for building generalizable, efficient, and verifiably safe skill ecosystems.
By Kexin Ding, Yang Zhou, Can Jin, Feng Tong, Mu Zhou, Dimitris N. Metaxas
arXiv:2606. 04321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI deployments face a recurring design tension: heavy human oversight limits scale, while broad autonomy outruns accountability.
By Travis Weber, Rohit Taneja
Harbor Adapters is a unified evaluation infrastructure that ports over 80 agentic benchmarks, enabling arbitrary agents to be tested across complex environments. The authors performed a large‑scale evaluation of 8 models on 54 benchmarks, using Terminus‑2 and three native harnesses, revealing detailed agent capabilities and failure modes. They also created Harbor‑Index, a curated set of 82 challenging tasks from 29 benchmarks, designed to be affordable yet comprehensive, with the best model achieving a 28.0% pass rate.
By Lin Shi (Audrey), Haowei Lin (Audrey), Zixuan Zhu (Audrey), Xiaoyue Zhou (Audrey), Xiang Li (Audrey), Xiangning Lin (Audrey), Yaxuan Deng (Audrey), Han Xu (Audrey), Yuangang Li (Audrey), Shanda Li (Audrey), Zizhao Chen (Audrey), Hanwen Xing (Audrey), Harsh Raj (Audrey), Bo Chen (Audrey), Quan Shi (Audrey), Steven Dillmann (Audrey), Yipeng Gao (Audrey), Puneesh Khanna (Audrey), Ruofan Lu (Audrey), Chao Beyond Zhou (Audrey), Michael Yang (Audrey), Robert Zhang (Audrey), Siyuan Chai (Audrey), Jiayu Chang (Audrey), Yizhao Chen (Audrey), Xiaokun Chen (Audrey), Yiwei Dai (Audrey), Wenting Yang (Audrey), Hange Liu (Audrey), Minghao Liu (Audrey), Zihan Wang (Audrey), Adnan El Assadi (Audrey), Benedikt Stroebl (Audrey), E. Kelly Buchanan (Audrey), Han Meng (Audrey), Junwei He (Audrey), Longxuan Yu (Audrey), Radin Shayanfar (Audrey), Yukyung Lee (Audrey), Zhikang Dong (Audrey), Allen G Hart (Audrey), Anjiang Wei (Audrey), Anurag Kashyap (Audrey), Arpandeep Khatua (Audrey), Audrey Jixin Zheng (Audrey), Chengrui Ma (Audrey), David Heineman (Audrey), Dubing Chen (Audrey), Hai-Anh Trinh (Audrey), Haishuo Fang (Audrey), Hefan Zhang (Audrey), Hui Shen (Audrey), Issa Sugiura (Audrey), Jiankai Sun (Audrey), Jiechao Gao (Audrey), Junhong Lin (Audrey), Junnan Li (Audrey), Kai Yang (Audrey), Lei Hsiung (Audrey), Maoyu Wang (Audrey), Mengze Tang (Audrey), Nabil Omi (Audrey), Negin Raoof (Audrey), Nicholas Edwards (Audrey), Octavia Guo (Audrey), Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis (Audrey), Pengliang Ji (Audrey), Przemys{\l}aw Hejman (Audrey), Qi Qi (Audrey), Qunshu Lin (Audrey), Richard Zhuang (Audrey), Rui Yang (Audrey), Ruichen Zheng (Audrey), Ryan Marten (Audrey), Shaghayegh Fazliani (Audrey), Shizheng Hou (Audrey), Sicong Jiang (Audrey), Sijie Li (Audrey), Song Bian (Audrey), Terry Yue Zhuo (Audrey), Tianqing Wu (Audrey), Tom Tang (Audrey), Wanjia Zhao (Audrey), Weihao Xuan (Audrey), Wenhua Liang (Audrey), Xian Liu (Audrey), Xin Lan (Audrey), Xuan Zhang (Audrey), Xuandong Zhao (Audrey), Yanchuan Tang (Audrey), Yifan Jiang (Audrey), Yijiang Li (Audrey), Yitong Guan (Audrey), Yizhi Li (Audrey), Yonghui Liu (Audrey), Yuheng Tang (Audrey), Yujun (Audrey), Mao, Yunfei Zhao, Yuxin Wang, Yuxuan Tang, Zhenheng Tang, Zhifei Li, Ziruo Wang, Ziyu She, Kaiyuan Liu, Iheb Chaabane, Yuxin Tang, Xiangyi Li, Andy Konwinski, Boxuan Li, Leon Liangyu Chen, Alex Dimakis, Nicholas Carlini, Soroush Vosoughi, Di He, Etash Guha, Benjamin Feuer, Mike Merrill, Ludwig Schmidt, Alex Shaw
The paper introduces Atria Dawn Preview, a foundation agentic language model aimed at scientific research and engineering workflows. Trained through a Verifiable Experience Pipeline, it performs competitively across 16 real‑world benchmarks, achieving the highest scores on five. The authors also present a detailed case study of human–AI collaboration, showing that while AI proposes methods and revisions, humans retain final decision‑making and guide the research direction.
By Honglin Guo, Tao Gui, Yicheng Chen, Guanting Dong, Qiming Ge, Yuyang Hu, Zixian Huang, Jiajie Jin, Alexander Lam, Yining Li, Jiahang Lin, Yanjiang Liu, Xinyu Lu, Haijun Lv, Junlin Shang, Qisheng Su, Guoqiang Wang, Rui Wang, Zhecan Wang, Hao Xiang, Xinchen Xie, Shuhao Xing, Xiaoyu Xing, Wanghan Xu, Xinyu Yang, Yajie Yang, Chengfeng Zhao, Haoran Zhao, Ruojun Zhou, Yunhua Zhou, Yicheng Zou, Kun Cai, Qiye Cai, Xinmeng Che, Haodong Chen, Jiabei Chen, Jiahao Chen, Jiayi Chen, Yujia Chen, Lizhi Cui, Youheng Dai, Xin Deng, Yi Dong, Shihan Dou, Chenya Gu, Xu Guo, Ding Han, Feiyang Hao, Haotan He, Jie Hou, Binze Hu, Zijian Hu, Junhao Huang, Huicheng Jiang, Jiazhen Jiang, Shufan Jiang, Jiahao Kuang, Bowen Lai, Bo Li, Jiaqiang Li, Peng Li, Qilong Li, Zhuoqun Li, Jiaxiang Liu, Shuainan Liu, Tong Liu, Yi Liu, Zhonghang Lu, Jianwen Luo, Yanyi Luo, Huijie Lv, Ningsheng Ma, Zerun Ma, Houcheng Min, Chengjun Pan, Qiyuan Peng, Xiaoxuan Peng, Jianmin Qian, Jiantao Qiu, Wanying Ren, Huayu Sha, Jifei Shan, Zixin Shang, Bing Shao, Zhuohui Sheng, Jiayang Shi, Yang Shu, Aierpanjiang Simayi, Sirui Song, Yuxiao Song, Zhe Sun, Zhichao Sun, Wenzhe Tan, Wenhui Tian, Zhongbo Tian, Hanchen Wang, Pengbo Wang, Rui Wang, Yiding Wang, Yuhui Wang, Zhiheng Xi, Caijun Xu, Chao Xu, Yongfeng Xu, Xiaolei Yang, Zhixiong Yang, Qian Yao, Shihong Yi, Yuankai Ying, Jia Yu, Dingbo Yuan, Hao Yuan, Junjie Yuan, Bo Zhang, Caixian Zhang, Qiuyinzhe Zhang, Jiyuan Zhao, Penghao Zhao, Ying Zhao, Pujun Zheng, Xiaoxue Zhong, Xiaohao Zhou, Xinyu Zhou, Dongsheng Zhu, Guanru Zhu, Yulun Zhu, Yaojie Lu, Tao Ji, Hongyu Lin, Yutao Zhu, Pengfei Cao, Guoxiu He, Xianpei Han, Ben He, Zhicheng Dou, Kang Liu, Qi Zhang, Le Sun, Jun Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Bowen Zhou
arXiv:2602. 16666v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed to execute important tasks.
By Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, Peter Kirgis, Kangheng Liu, Saiteja Utpala, Arvind Narayanan
arXiv:2505. 21550v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Collaborative agentic AI is projected to transform entire industries by enabling AI-powered agents to autonomously perceive, plan, and act within digital environments.
By Rishi Sharma, Martijn de Vos, Pradyumna Chari, Ramesh Raskar, Anne-Marie Kermarrec
arXiv:2606. 13608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems are advancing quickly across domains, but their evaluation remains fragmented.
By Xiaoyuan Liu, Jianhong Tu, Yuqi Chen, Siyuan Xie, Sihan Ren, Tianneng Shi, Gal Gantar, Evan Sandoval, Donghyun Lee, Daniel Miao, Peter J. Gilbert, Nick Hynes, Mauro Staver, Warren He, David Marn, Andrew Low, Xi Zhang, Elron Bandel, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Siva Reddy, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Lacoste, Ramayya Krishnan, Elham Tabassi, Yu Su, Victor Barres, Chenguang Wang, Wenbo Guo, Dawn Song
The paper argues that artificial agentic systems, which operate as behavioral systems by interacting with dynamic environments, pursuing goals, and adapting over time, should be evaluated through systematic observation, perturbation, and interpretation of their actions rather than solely on performance outcomes. It draws on lessons from behavioral sciences to motivate this position and proposes a research agenda that includes methods for recovering decision strategies from action sequences, constructing environments that isolate behavioral differences, and probing emergent dynamics in multi‑agent systems. These directions aim to establish a rigorous science of AI behavior.
By Manuel Cherep, Nikhil Singh, Pattie Maes