Language agents rarely withdraw selectively when instructions or permissions change

In a synthetic benchmark, three open-weight models largely failed to suspend affected actions, preserve valid work, and resume after repair.

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Mohamed Abouzahra
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Abouzahra introduces NAQD-Env, a benchmark for testing whether language agents revise plans selectively when evidence, authorization, or constraints change.

NAQD-Env represents plans using explicit dependencies among evidence, permissions, constraints, and actions.

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Independent · Part of Agent Rule Compliance, now 23 papers

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Language agents exhibit very low withdrawal recall and no valid resumption in the NAQD-Env benchmark.

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