arXiv AI By Yining Hua, Hongbin Na, Yifan Zhou, Akshay Kalose, Cyrus Ayubcha, Levi Lian

StagedWorkspace: A Versioned Workspace for Knowledge-Work Agents

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StagedWorkspace is a versioned workspace designed for knowledge‑work AI agents, ensuring that every parsed view, native file edit, and review diff is explicitly tied to a specific version of the workspace state. By binding parsed records and review diffs to content hashes of native files, the system improves performance on tasks such as OfficeQA and APEX‑Agents, achieving higher pass rates and rubric scores compared to single‑view approaches. The study demonstrates that providing dual parsed/native access and visible diffs enhances agent performance, highlighting workspace state as a key experimental variable for future benchmarks.

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