arXiv AI By Lyuhao Chen, Xi Cheng, Yanming Kang, Ruiyan Zhu, Ke Liu, Rakesh Chowdary Machineni, Yulang Fei, Brian Zhu, Daniel Jin, Binze Cai, Zheng Qi, Neeraj Parihar, Zhoutian Xu, Oliver Gao

SheetMind: Actions Set Accuracy, Agents Set the Failure Mode

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SheetMind is a Manager‑Action‑Reflection framework that evaluates how much spreadsheet agent performance derives from the agents themselves versus the shared action interface. In a controlled study on all 221 tasks of the SheetCopilot Benchmark, replacing the high‑level action API with primitive cell operations drops accuracy by 47.1 points, while adding a Reflection Agent improves performance by 4.5 points and a Manager by 1.4 points. The framework also shows that decomposition changes failure modes, reducing silent wrong outputs from 33% to 25%, and that GPT‑5 and GPT‑5‑mini achieve similar performance, whereas GPT‑3.5 underperforms significantly.

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