arXiv AI By Bardia Mohammadi, Nearchos Potamitis, Lars Klein, Akhil Arora, Laurent Bindschaedler

Atomix: Timely, Transactional Tool Use for Reliable Agentic Workflows

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arXiv:2602. 14849v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM agents execute multi-step workflows that mutate external state through tools.

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