The paper introduces “Revise”, a runtime system that performs validity-guided, fine-grained recovery for online revisions in structured agent workflows. When a revision arrives, Revise intersects the change with recorded data and control dependencies, propagates the impact through the partially executed DAG, stops invalid work, preserves unaffected progress, and recomputes only the affected region. Experiments on real coding‑agent traces and LangGraph/LLMCompiler applications show that Revise matches a latest‑version oracle, reduces model calls by up to 56%, and improves service‑level objective goodput under load.
By Ruoling Qi, Xuaner Wu, Penghang Liu, Jian Chen, Yirui Liu
The paper investigates how AI agents that run long workflows using external tools can experience inconsistencies when retries, speculative execution, concurrency, or partial failures occur. It introduces an effect‑history model that distinguishes between actual external events and the agent’s observations, and catalogs eight common external‑effect anomalies. The authors analyze the standard Model Context Protocol tool interface, finding that its annotations are too coarse to fully express the necessary capabilities to prevent these anomalies, thereby motivating the need for reusable transactional contracts at the agent‑tool boundary.
By Artem Trofimov, Boris Novikov
arXiv:2609.38201v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long-running tools can dominate coding-agent latency: compilers, test suites, and repository commands take seconds to minutes while the agent idles. Th...
By Jiangnan Yu, Ceyu Xu, Mengming Li, Shiyu Huang, Yiran Xia, Jian Weng, Hui Xue, Haohui Mai, Yuan Xie
arXiv:2607. 11098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents are mostly evaluated assuming all tools work.
By Aritra Mazumder, Nusrat jahan Lia
AI agents increasingly execute long-running workflows that externalize effects through independently supplied tools. Under retries, speculative execution, concurrency, and partial failures, the result...
arXiv:2606. 15376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems -- coding agents, devops agents, document agents -- now routinely run several agents in parallel against the same git tree, Kubernetes cluster, or document.
By Hongtao Lyu, Dingyan Zhang, Mingyu Wu, Xingda Wei, Haibo Chen