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Tool Parallelism Has A Scheduling Problem
PeakBench is a useful benchmark because it tests a failure that rarely appears in tool-use leaderboards: an agent can choose the right calls, respect the...
Tool Agents Need Taint Boundaries, Not Bigger Scopes
APPA landed on arXiv on 27 July 2026 with a blunt result for tool-agent security: permission prompts are too late once poisoned or confidential data has...
Tool-Use Agents Need Failure Labels, Not Pass Rates
Tool-use agents can fail in ways a final accuracy score hides, because the same wrong answer can come from skipped tools, ignored outputs, fabricated...
Agent Tool Menus Are a Safety Surface
New agent benchmarks suggest the visible tool menu is not a neutral implementation detail. It changes success, cost, wrong-tool calls, and risk exposure.
Tool Agents Need State Diffs, Not API Call Scores
Tool-use agents are moving from choosing the right API to changing live product state. That makes a clean function-call score too small a test because...
Small Agent Models Need Tool Floors, Not Parameter Claims
Small language models are getting a serious agent story, but the useful question is no longer whether a 1B, 3B, or 8B model can sound capable. The useful...