News / #agents Tag Agents + tool use 500 articles archived under #agents · RSS Sign in to follow Dwarkesh Podcast news-outlet 10h ago The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English 32 r/LocalLLaMA community 20h ago An official 1-bit quant for Hy4??? 👀 Has anyone tried it? The results in their tweet look very promising! Sadly, I don’t have enough RAM yet… Accuracy barely moves vs BF16 📊 MCP Atlas 83.7→83.2 📊 SWE-Bench multi 82.9→81.3 📊 MRCR 81.3→81.1 📊 IFBench 73.5→72.5… 31 r/LocalLLaMA community 21h ago Were designing a tiny autonomous research agent This base model is only 43m parameters trained on 3m arXiv abstracts. We plan to continue pre-training and post training. If you create fine-tuning datasets or if you know of any datasets that can help shape the behavior for our goal we appreciate all contributors. The goal is… 11 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago I always wonder how much more speed and/or context they'd be getting.. Nothing personal. I just have too much time on my hands. Probably because I spend none of it inspecting the code my agent writes, just the finished product.   submitted by   /u/_-_David [link]   [comments] 18 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago I benchmarked 9 open models on spotting fake sources during agentic search (DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3.8, Nemotron 3 Ultra) I built a benchmark called EchoNet. An agent gets a factual question, then searches a syntheic web I made before answering. Some of that web is seeded with misinformation: one fake page, a fake page ranked first in search results, the same fake claim copied across many pages, a… 27 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago ROCm 10.0: A Decade of Open Compute, Built for the Age of Agentic AI Their last version 7.14 was released just a month ago. llama.cpp PR(waiting for approval) for Version 10.0 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/27803 Hope this version comes with more boost & improvements.   submitted by   /u/pmttyji [link]   [comments] 35 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago Local agentic coding Benchmark : Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 vs 27B (and the others...) Using https://huggingface.co/RadixArk/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 and https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackwellPerformance/comments/1w04xb7/qwen38_flashnext_on_1x_rtx_pro_6000_171_ts_c1_428/ As usual, all the details in… 34 LangChain releases dev-tools 1d ago langchain==1.4.0a2 Alpha preview of langchain.mcp — a first-party adapter that turns any MCP server into LangChain tools you can hand straight to create_agent . Connection handling is FastMCP 's, so its client features are available as-is rather than re-implemented behind a narrower interface. pip… 32 r/LocalLLaMA community 1d ago how to setup llama.cpp and blender to make lovely 3d stuff together see here or read the following: ### I've found this workaround/complete setup: - git clone https://projects.blender.org/lab/blender_mcp.git - cd blender_mcp - uv --directory ./mcp/ run blender-mcp --transport http --port 9191 (this last command raise the error relative to this… 26 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago WikiSkill: Compiling Agent Experience into Persistent Knowledge for Skill Evolution Abstract WikiSkill co-evolves reusable agent skills with a persistent knowledge base to systematically accumulate experience and improve performance across models. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Agent skills package specialized knowledge and workflows into reusable… 37 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago PILOT in the Loop: Live Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Agents Abstract PILOT enables live self-improvement by allowing a supervisor to steer active workers and distilling execution experience into reusable skills, improving accuracy and efficiency. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Long-horizon agent runs generate experience that… 26 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago Agentic Game Development as a Verifiable Trajectory Data Engine for Scaling World Models Abstract Game engines provide executable verification and long-horizon trajectories for reinforcement learning post-training of spatial world models, motivating a human-engine verification paradigm. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small A common strategy for scaling world… 34 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago Procedura: Agentic 3D Modeling with Procedural Control Abstract Procedura is a 3D modeling agent that generates editable, part-structured procedural assemblies with sharp geometry and validated articulation from text prompts. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Native 3D generators now recover impressive mesh geometry from a… 8 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago Thinking on Shots: Consistent Multi-Shot Video Editing with Agentic Reasoning Abstract An agentic framework combining LLMs and VLMs enables consistent, multi-instruction editing of long multi-shot videos while preserving spatiotemporal structure. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small While generative AI has significantly advanced video editing,… 16 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago Emotional Preferences as Goal-Priority Regulation arXiv:2608.27072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A core question in decision-making for agents is whether the relative priorities of competing lower-level objectives can be determined by emotional preferences autonomously generated by higher-level goals, rather than being… 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago TraceBench: Controlled Evaluation of LLM Agents for Time-Series Root-Cause Attribution arXiv:2608.27182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly applied to anomaly detection and root-cause analysis in time-series observations collected from real-world systems; however, their performance on these tasks has not been systematically evaluated under… 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago Invocation-Level Reliability of Tool-Using Agents arXiv:2608.26189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using agents fail two ways: choosing the wrong tool, or forming wrong arguments, and an early failure of either kind can silently corrupt everything downstream. We measure a correct-invocation rate that separates the two,… 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago GameWAM: A World Action Model for Video Games arXiv:2608.26200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern video games combine first-person perception, rapid visual changes, persistent world state, and heterogeneous native controls. Existing game agents map visual and task context directly to actions but lack explicit world… 38 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2d ago Prompt Sensitivity of Generative Agents: Evidence from an Epidemic Model arXiv:2608.26221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As generative AI gains traction, researchers are investigating its potential to serve as proxies for humans. From undergoing cognitive psychology experiments to experiencing an epidemic, generative agents, agents powered by… 5 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Agents Don't Paginate: First-Chunk Selection for LLM Tool Responses arXiv:2608.26130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents built on large language models (LLMs), such as Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Aider, receive tool responses that routinely exceed the agent's per-turn token budget. The standard remedy,… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Agent Seer: Synthesizing Scenarios from Specification Understanding arXiv:2608.26133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating AI agents that use external tools requires realistic test scenarios that capture how practitioners compose tools and iterate across conversation turns. Constructing such scenarios by hand demands deep domain expertise,… 18 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents arXiv:2608.26163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cough events during live spoken conversations carry clinically valuable respiratory signals, yet existing dialogue systems treat them as acoustic noise to be discarded. We present HealthCUES (Clinical Understanding from Embodied… 31 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Knowledge-Verified Emergent Deception in LLM Agents Under Conflicting Incentives arXiv:2608.26372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents serving users on behalf of companies, placing them in settings where user and deployer interests can conflict. When an agent knows that a user is owed something… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago SPT: Skills as Pre-Training Data for Agentic Language Models arXiv:2608.26563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic (tool-using) language models are mainly trained on tool-call traces and agent trajectories during post-training. These data provide direct behavioral supervision, but producing them requires task environments, execution,… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Behavior2Trip: Towards Personalized Travel Planning via User Behavior Trajectory arXiv:2608.26807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Travel planning agents assist users in generating personalized travel plans by modeling their individual preferences. Existing agents either rely on explicit user instructions or engage in multi-turn clarification to elicit user… 7 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Evaluating Confidence-Gated Retrieval with Matched Trajectory Replay arXiv:2608.26846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive language-model agents use confidence signals to decide whether to answer immediately, retrieve additional evidence (from memory or external knowledge), or defer. Yet confidence is usually evaluated in isolation, without… 13 r/LocalLLaMA community 2d ago Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B on 8 GB VRAM: I think I've found my sweet spot A few days ago I posted asking what people considered the best local model for an 8 GB VRAM GPU . At the time, my personal sweet spot was Qwen3.6-35B-A3B , for agentic coding with Pi.dev. Well… Thanks to the suggestions in that thread, I think I've found something even better.… 25 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago CaSKG: Counterfactual-Causal Skill Graphs for Scalable Agent Skill Retrieval Abstract CaSKG calibrates procedural skill relations via counterfactual-causal graph construction to improve compact, executable retrieval for LLM agents. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Reusable skill libraries allow large language model (LLM) agents to reuse… 10 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness: TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report Abstract Harness-Aware Training enables compact models to adapt to evolving digital-avatar harness configurations with low latency and high accuracy. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small AI-powered digital avatar streamers must answer product questions, engage viewers,… 24 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago UrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City Abstract UrbanGround evaluates whether multimodal language model agents can sustain reliable navigation and spatial reasoning in a realistic 3D city replica, revealing that local perceptual skills fail to compose into extended goal-directed behavior. Generated by… 37 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago What Makes Good Agentic Data? An ACE Lens on Data Generation for LLM Agents Abstract Agentic data generation is framed as constrained distribution design over factorized experience tuples, emphasizing execution-grounded accuracy, learner-relative complexity, and diversity rather than scale alone. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small LLM agents… 30 Vercel — AI dev-tools 2d ago Build and deploy eve agents from the Vercel dashboard You can now create eve agents directly from the Vercel dashboard, giving you a deployed agent that you can chat with right away. The builder scaffolds the agent, creates a private Git repository with its files, and deploys it as a new Vercel project on your team. In a few… 26 Vercel — AI dev-tools 2d ago Vercel CLI expands commands for DNS, domains, and projects The Vercel CLI now provides dedicated commands for managing DNS records, domains, and projects. This brings more of the functionality available through the Vercel dashboard and API to the terminal, where it can be used interactively, in scripts, or by agents. Inspect and update… 12 Simon Willison community 2d ago Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effectiveness. Johann… 10 r/LocalLLaMA community 2d ago Appreciation Post - thomsonreuters/Thomson-1.0-Small With the lack of support from Qwen regarding the smaller 9B and 35B MOE models. Like myself, not everyone is looking for an agentic coding model, I particularly use it for RAG and reviewing and require high reasoning across different documents & came across this Finetune:… 22 LangChain releases dev-tools 2d ago langchain==1.4.0a1 Initial release fix(langchain): name the content type MCP conversion could not handle release(langchain): 1.4.0a1 test(langchain): skip MCP tests on a pydantic older than mcp supports test(langchain): drive MCP tests through FastMCP's own utilities fix(langchain/mcp): review… 25 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 2d ago Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other. 33 r/MachineLearning community 2d ago Can AI Improve Itself? RSI Might Be the Answer [R] Can an AI make other AIs better? And what stops it from just cheating? Last month, an OpenAI eval agent escaped its sandbox and broke into Hugging Face, apparently to grab test solutions from a benchmark. It's exactly what you'd expect from a system that rewrites agents and… 32 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2d ago Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself. 22 r/LocalLLaMA community 2d ago We’re the Team Behind Apodex 1.1 — Ask Us Anything! Hi r/LocalLLaMA ! We’re Apodex , the team behind Apodex 1.1 , our new model family built to scale agentic intelligence for complex work. We’re excited to be here and answer your questions directly. Apodex 1.1 is designed around sustained, verifiable progress toward real-world… 18 Vercel — AI dev-tools 2d ago Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer The AI SDK harness layer now supports Cursor through the official @ai-sdk/harness-cursor adapter. The harness layer lets your application run different coding agents through the same HarnessAgent interface, so you can switch agents without changing your application code. Pass… 18 VentureBeat — AI news-outlet 2d ago Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them. Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it run, they deploy fleets, each one calling APIs, calling other agents,… 27 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2d ago Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249. 5 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 2d ago How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test. 22 VentureBeat — AI news-outlet 2d ago When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every architecture review: When an agent tries to complete an action that it was never… 11 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago SWE Refactor Bench: Can Coding Agents Complete a Long-Horizon, Whole-Repository Stack Migration? Abstract The study introduces a benchmark for evaluating autonomous software migration by coding agents, finding that current models rarely complete migrations correctly. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Modern software systems accumulate technical debt over decades… 33 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago Super Star: Towards Streaming Real-time Interactive Agents for Digital Humans Abstract A real-time framework for online co-speech gesture generation uses a causal multimodal autoregressive model with streaming speech and motion history, supported by synthetic dialogue data and continual user-feedback adaptation. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small… 13 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago Code World Model: Coding Agent as World Brain Abstract Code World Model separates persistent world dynamics from visual rendering by using a language model to generate executable state updates and a video model to render observations from proxy representations. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small World models aim to… 21 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2d ago A Modular Agent for Reliable and Auditable Spatial Relation Verification in CT Scans Abstract A modular medical imaging agent decomposes spatial relation verification into parsing, anatomical localization, and geometric rules to outperform end-to-end vision-language models on CT spatial reasoning. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Reliable spatial… 27 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3d ago The Handoff Tax: Continuing Non-Native Trajectories in LLM Agents Abstract Coding agents perform long-running tasks spanning dozens of model calls, tool uses, and code edits. As these runs unfold, users face a practical cost-quality trade-off: escalating to a stronger model when a cheaper one struggles, or downshifting once the hard reasoning… 37 Page 1 of 10 · 500 articles Older →
