arXiv:2606. 02357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented multimodal agents show strong benchmark gains, often taken as evidence that agents have learned to use tools.
By Garvin Guo, Donglei Yu, Yu Chen, Xiang Wang, Shuai Li, Xinpei Zhao, Huaxing Liu, Qinghao Wang, Minpeng Liao
arXiv:2608.28795v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Modern artificial-intelligence coding agents can be equipped with tools for checking their own work e.g. a linter, a boot probe, a shell, a screensho...
By Achint Mehta
The paper introduces a coroutine-bridge harness that lets a language model emit a Python program to manage tool calls in the CAR-bench evaluation. By decoupling model invocations from tool round-trips, the approach reduces model calls to a median of two per task while maintaining seven agent turns, achieving a median latency of 1.8 s on a Cerebras gpt‑oss‑120b. The harness achieved 60.0 % Pass³ on the official hidden evaluation, outperforming the baseline by 4.5× and matching frontier-model agents on GPT‑5.5, all while keeping the prompt largely cached and minimizing input compute.
By Ivan Matveev
arXiv:2607.28225v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Agentic vision-language models (VLMs), which interleave textual reasoning with explicit tool calls such as cropping and code-based image manipulati...
By Haoqing Wang, Xingrun Xing, Ziheng Li, Jianyuan Guo, Yehui Tang
Two prompts can request the same code change and produce the same correct patch, yet cause a coding agent to perform radically different kinds and amounts of work. We study this effect in a preregistered benchmark spanning 4,644 valid runs, 24 deterministic coding tasks, seven reasoning models, and two real agent harnesses.
arXiv:2609.24161v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: As LLM agents increasingly interact with external tools through standardized protocols such as MCP, tool-interface design becomes a critical yet unde...
By Demetris Paschalides, Moysis Symeonides, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos