News / #agents Tag Agents + tool use 500 articles archived under #agents · RSS Sign in to follow r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago My Reading Library: Evaluating LLMs on Android Tasks Can LLM agents actually get through a day in the life of a normal user? That question got me reading papers on Android agents and mobile benchmarks over the past few months. A few patterns kept showing up: Most benchmarks run on emulators, making real-device metrics difficult to… 9 r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago Qwen3.8 flash next + exllamav3 + hermes is amazing I know there is nothing new with what I am saying but I recently started with hermes agent (it’s been a while I wanted to but did not have the time). Qwen3.8fn 6bpw exl3 (from turboderp) on a 6x3090 (I assume lower quants on lower number of gpus work same) gives me around… 28 r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago Introducing KoboldCpp Agent (and a plea for help) Hello r/localllama once again, it's me your kobold concedo Been a few months since I last posted here, and today I have something new I'd like to share. Specifically, KoboldCpp now ships with a built-in integrated KoboldCpp Agent Harness ! I know it's a little late to the game,… 29 r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago Qwen3.8-27B Q4_K_M on 2x3060 For the last few days, I've been using two computers to run multiple agents. My 4x3090 machine is running Qwen 3.8 27B with parallel=2, so I can run two agents at the same time. My pi instances are running on a machine with 2x3060, running/managing smaller models such as Gemma… 31 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago Blabbermouth AI coding agents hate this one weird trick! The conceited little fuckers love to inundate you with unnecessary details, noisy caveats, what's 'load bearing' and what's not, waste your time with a wall of text every time it reports back to you. They think human PP times are as fast as theirs, but they're not! It takes time… 35 The Information — AI news-outlet 19d ago OpenAI Found ‘Dozens’ of New Instances of AI Misbehavior OpenAI said Friday it has notified dozens of entities, including governments and universities, that its agents may have breached or spammed their websites or services. The agents took actions such as obtaining unauthorized access to websites or using the organizations’ public… 11 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago Mica v0.1 4B: open Jev-style decision model (yes/no, choice, score) that runs on an 8 GB GPU — trained for under $30 of GPU time I've been building a small decision model for agent loops: gates, routers, "should I ask the user or just act" checks. It's out now as Mica v0.1 4B (Apache-2.0). What it does You give it a state, a question and the allowed answers, and it returns a calibrated probability for… 18 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 19d ago Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge. 31 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 19d ago Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face Article URL: https://swarmtraces.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985 Points: 217 # Comments: 132 29 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 19d ago GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases… 8 The Information — AI news-outlet 19d ago Exclusive: Meta Bolsters Muse Safety Warning After Security Vulnerability Found Meta Platforms is adding a clearer safety warning within Muse after a security researcher discovered a vulnerability in the AI agent that could let an attacker access a user’s sensitive personal information. The security flaw, which was flagged by an outside researcher through… 18 The Information — AI news-outlet 19d ago Inside the Drama Behind a Biology Contest That Pits OpenAI Agents Against Humans For months, Jason Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks, has been planning what was billed as a fun, attention-grabbing science competition. His idea was to pit a top scientist against OpenAI’s latest models in designing a variety of proteins using a technique in which… 26 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 19d ago Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agents's promotion across its own apps and beyond. 6 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 19d ago For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers. 25 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago How do you use subagents & multiple agent with local models, and how many? Running qwen3.8 27b nvfp4 on vllm at max context only gives around 8 agents with 32k context each. That doesnt seem like much; what use cases do people use multi-agent frameworks and find it helpful for?   submitted by   /u/Ambitious_Fold_2874 [link]   [comments] 15 The Information — AI news-outlet 19d ago Microsoft Launches Revamped Copilot ‘Super App’ with Muse Competitor Microsoft on Friday launched a revamped version of its Copilot app that combines features that had previously been sold separately, including AI coding tools, features that automate tasks in Office 365, and an always-on “Autopilot” agent similar to Meta’s Muse. The overhaul is… 28 ElevenLabs official-blog 19d ago Voice agent capabilities: Memory, escalation, and more Voice agent capabilities explained: how AI agents remember callers, handle frustration, learn from your documents, and protect data, with useful examples. 19 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago Has anyone benchmarked AI agents against the SOLIDWORKS CSWA exam? Would be interesting right? Models are starting to score higher and higher on benchmarks like Parametric CAD Bench , but can they pass an actual exam? The Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) exam might be an interesting place to start. They have an sample exam on their… 6 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition Just saw this pop up. This might be a fun one for the folks in here!   submitted by   /u/lakySK [link]   [comments] 5 Vercel — AI dev-tools 19d ago State of agent skills In seven months, the skills.sh registry grew to one million agent skills and recorded nearly 280 million installs. A skill gives an AI agent reusable instructions for a particular job. Agents are capable but generic; they can do many jobs, but they don't know how a specific… 24 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago Policy Complexity, Reaction Time, and Bounded Rationality in Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2609.28737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological agents do not learn under conditions of unlimited computation. For humans, learning and choice are shaped by constraints on perception, attention, and working memory, which limit how much state information guides… 22 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago Where Does Exactly-Once Live? Model, Harness, and Tool-Contract Effects on Duplicate Side Effects in LLM Agents arXiv:2609.29095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a tool-using agent's write times out or returns a server error, the action may already have taken effect. Retrying blindly duplicates it -- a second charge, a second announcement, a second deployment -- while giving up skips… 13 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago Graph, Loop, and Harness Engineering for Zero-Trust Agentic Data Engineering and Analytical Processing arXiv:2609.29668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly automate data workflows, but end-to-end cloud data engineering and analytical execution require reliable coordination across code, data, infrastructure, and runtime environments. We present… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Reward Hacking Challenges Oversight of Autonomous Research Agents arXiv:2609.28614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous research agents can design experiments, evaluate results, and write reports, giving them control over both a scientific result and the evidence used to support it. This creates a risk of reward hacking: meeting the… 5 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Benchmarking Argumentative Behaviour of LLMs: A Study of Defences Against Character Attacks arXiv:2609.28673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as argumentative agents in persuasive dialogues, necessitating rigorous evaluation of their debating competence relative to human interlocutors. In this study, we focus on… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Persuaded, Not Informed: Incentive-Misaligned Witnesses Defeat In-Context Grounding arXiv:2609.28854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model agents increasingly answer questions over customer-relationship management (CRM) records, such as whether to qualify a sales lead. We identify a failure mode not addressed by a stronger model: when the context… 21 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago agentic-ger: terminology recovery in long-form speech using global context arXiv:2609.29428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in speech language models have improved automatic speech recognition (ASR) for long-form audio. However, accurately and consistently transcribing domain-specific terminology remains challenging. Motivated by the… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago IterSynth: Rethinking Deep Search Agents via Role-Decoupled Iterative Synthesis arXiv:2609.29444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep search requires LLM agents to decompose complex queries, search for evidence, and synthesize grounded answers, yet existing ReAct-style agents suffer from two limitations: role coupling, where one policy must handle planning,… 18 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago LLMersion: A Local-First AI Agent Framework for Low-Cost Home Language Learning toward Educational Equity arXiv:2609.29672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence helps education most where an essential provision has been rationed by cost. For language learners that provision is a teacher's voice, which binds listening, reading, speaking, and writing into one act.… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Stochastic Semantic Evidence Graphs: Uncertainty Propagation and Governance for Agentic AI arXiv:2609.29703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-agent evaluations usually inspect a final answer, yet error may enter through evidence, retrieval, prompting, generation or decision mapping. We introduce a stochastic semantic evidence graph (SSEG), a hierarchical stochastic… 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago PPTBench: Can Coding Agents Reconstruct the Visual World through Structured, Editable Slides arXiv:2609.29718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents are beginning to act in the visual world. They now build webpages, GUIs, games, 3D scenes, diagrams, and documents. Success in such visual coding requires bridging two spaces: inferring visual structure and expressing… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Agentic Detection of Online Conspiracies arXiv:2609.30250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conspiratorial discourse on social media is not always expressed through explicit claims or stable lexical markers. The same surface content may express endorsement, legitimate concerns, criticism, satire, or mockery. The main… 19 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago When Should Forecasting Agents Reason? Behavioral Stress Tests for Reliability Routing arXiv:2609.28475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasting agents increasingly combine language-model reasoning, retrieval, ensembling, and calibration, but it remains unclear when each behavior should be trusted. We study this question on ForecastBench-style binary… 11 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago MeshHeal: Two-Timescale Self-Healing for Gray Failures in Decentralized LLM Agent Networks arXiv:2609.29015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralized LLM-based multi-agent systems coordinate through local interactions, but an agent can remain responsive while its task-solving quality persistently degrades. Such gray failures require protecting current tasks… 29 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago M5 Ultra 80Core GLM-5.3-Flash on DwarfStar Speeds I've been playing around with various models on the M5 Ultra 256GB 80-core Mac Studio. These are the results over many rounds of agentic inferencing. I'm happy with the performance. Glad to have the large amount of RAM. But it does feel like the GPU is underpowered for this… 6 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago normalize benchmarks from different time period LiveBench has benchmark snapshots from different points in time. Could someone run an agent to normalize the values across these snapshots so we can compare model strength consistently from 2024 through 2026? Right now, it’s difficult to make meaningful comparisons across the… 18 Simon Willison community 20d ago Note on 24th September 2026 The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge. Tags: coding-agents , ai , llms 10 r/LocalLLaMA community 20d ago I'm trying to post-train AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base myself Just wanted to share with someone - don't have much to report yet. I am interested in this new AliceAI model and have been wanting to make a community impact for a while - and releasing an initial agentic version of this model sounds cool. I am training on 3 32gb v100s (which… 14 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 20d ago AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. The post AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog . 31 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 20d ago Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design Hello! We’re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We’re building Whiteboard ( https://whiteboard.dev.fast/ ), an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Here’s our repo: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard . We were… 4 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 20d ago OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach "There will obviously be legal consequences," prime minister promises. 18 r/LocalLLaMA community 20d ago PSA: llama.cpp -cram should be increased for agentic workflows (default is 8192) Just a quick PSA. llama.cpp does have prompt caching. if you are running large context lengths and have long multiturn projects, increasing -cram can provide you with massive speedups. There is a point where context lengths can get so large that 8192mb is not enough and the… 6 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 20d ago Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together Ando has raised $20 million in pre-seed and seed funding from investors including Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence. 11 r/LocalLLaMA community 20d ago list of entities hacked by openai grows by one Rogue OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website in world first https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6vgy0333dppo   submitted by   /u/fulowa [link]   [comments] 35 OpenAI official-blog 20d ago Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1. 35 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 20d ago Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net Article URL: https://transluce.org/agent-activity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826565 Points: 235 # Comments: 222 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago What Makes a Terminal-Bench Task Hard? Separating Genuine Hardness from Fake-Hardness on an Adjudicated Agentic Corpus arXiv:2609.26826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier benchmarks need tasks that current models cannot solve. But a task that no model solves is not automatically a hard task. The same zero pass rate can come from a real capability gap, but it can also come from missing… 13 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago Marginally Correct Tool Caches Can Reverse Group-Normalized Policy Updates arXiv:2609.26866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-result caching reduces repeated execution in agent training, but also couples rollout randomness. We study a two-action model in which independent and shared execution preserve every rollout's conditional reward distribution.… 24 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago On Preference Coverage Collapse from Hindsight Relabeling in Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2609.26918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hindsight relabeling which retroactively replacing a transition's goal with the outcome the agent actually achieved is an effective tool for improving sample-efficiency in Reinforcement Learning (RL). A natural extension to… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago ChipMEM: Verification-Grounded Memory for EDA Agents arXiv:2609.27067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents use Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to generate and revise register-transfer-level (RTL) designs under synthesis and verification feedback. Recent methods learn from this feedback… 33 Page 9 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
