Email agents execute valid tool calls but often miss the task

Across 206 enterprise email scenarios, the strongest tested model configuration completed only 33.5 percent despite nearly all tool calls executing successfully.

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Mukul Singh · Mansi Uniyal · Devin Devlin · Wen Xie · Big Thadawasin · Ritam Dutt · +2 more

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Singh et al.

The authors created 206 scenarios across 16 task categories using a deterministic, synthetic Enron-inspired corpus and a provider-neutral typed email API.

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The best enterprise email agent configuration passes only 33.5% of benchmark scenarios despite 99.7% of its tool calls executing without API errors.

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