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Is Bash All You Need? An Empirical Study of Tool Interfaces for Enterprise Digital Worker Agents

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.11999v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this study, we examine whether a general shell can outperform specialized tools on enterprise tasks. Shell-based agents have shown strong results i

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl
14 Sept 2026
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AlgoWorlds: Benchmarking Tool Use for Global Optimization in Algorithmic Worlds

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.29397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-use benchmarks generally evaluate whether an agent completes a workflow using appropriate tools and valid arguments. However, feasibility alone is

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl
1 Sept 2026
Safety

TRACER: Per-Tool Context Retention for LLM Agents via Consequence-Attributed Reinforcement Learning

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.29363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise data agents answer business queries by chaining many tool calls over multiple reasoning steps, routinely accumulating hundreds of thousands o

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
1 Sept 2026
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UserToolBench: A User-Profile-Hidden Benchmark for Personalized Decision Making in Tool-Use LLMs

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.10042v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-use LLMs are increasingly asked to act on users' behalf, but existing benchmarks usually focus on profile recall, style imitation, generic tool u

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
12 Aug 2026
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OpenVisTool: An Open Recipe for Synthesizing Instructive Visual Tool-Use Trajectories

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.08557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual tool use has emerged as a fundamental capability for multimodal agents to actively acquire evidence beyond a fixed image encoding. The prevailing

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl
11 Aug 2026
Safety

Controlling Tool Use with Heading-Specific Activation Steering

DGX agent

arXiv:2607.05790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented large language models extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowledge through external tools, but tend to invoke them unnecessarily

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
8 Jul 2026
Safety

When Lower Privileges Suffice: Investigating Over-Privileged Tool Selection in LLM Agents

DGX agent

arXiv:2606.20023v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As LLM agents increasingly select tools autonomously, their choices among tools with different privileges become safety-relevant. However, pri

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
8 Jul 2026
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NTILC: Neural Tool Invocation via Learned Compression

DGX agent

arXiv:2606.06566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic tool-calling language models depend on large registries of callable APIs, functions, and local actions. Placing full tool specifications direc

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
8 Jun 2026
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Learning When Not to Act: Mitigating Tool Abuse in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

DGX agent

arXiv:2606.02132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning can induce tool abuse, where models overuse external tools even for queries solvable by internal reasoning. Existing appr

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
2 Jun 2026
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ParaTool: Shifting Tool Representations from Context to Parameters

DGX agent

arXiv:2605.29561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool calling extends large language models (LLMs) by enabling grounded interaction with external executable interfaces, thereby supporting environment-c

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
29 May 2026
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Internalizing Tool Knowledge in Small Language Models via QLoRA Fine-Tuning

DGX agent

arXiv:2605.17774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as planning components in agentic systems, but current tool-use pipelines often require full tool schemas to

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl
19 May 2026
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Tool-MCoT: Tool Augmented Multimodal Chain-of-Thought for Content Safety Moderation

DGX agent

arXiv:2604.06205v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growth of online platforms and user content requires strong content moderation systems that can handle complex inputs from various media types. Wh

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
10 Apr 2026
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SchemaFill: Efficient LLM Tool Calling via Slot-Parallel Speculative Decoding

DGX agent

arXiv:2610.07086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents interact with external systems by generating structured tool calls. Given a user request, conversational context, and a catalog of tool sch

researcharxiv-cs-ai
7 Oct 2026
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SAP: State-Guided Data Synthesis with Argument Provenance for Multi-Turn Tool Use

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.06124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality multi-turn tool-use data is essential for training agentic models, yet existing data synthesis methods often underrepresent the argument-le

agentsarxiv-cs-ai
10 Sept 2026
Research

Multi-Tool Image Editing Attribution in Facial Forgery

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.02751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As generative AI tools become increasingly powerful and easy to use, people can easily edit portrait images with a prompt, necessitating the task of ima

researcharxiv-cs-cv
3 Sept 2026
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Calibration is the Bottleneck: An Action-Class Diagnostic of Multi-Turn Tool-Calling

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.00949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-turn tool calling is a core evaluation scenario for large language model (LLM) agents. On public tool-calling benchmarks, open-weight models now

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai
2 Sept 2026
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Influence Is Not Authority: When Causal Guardrail Signals Make Legitimate Tool Use Look Like an Attack in Tool-Using LLM Agents

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.29942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key limitation of current state-of-the-art influence-based guardrails is that they do not reliably distinguish a legitimate, user-authorized actio

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
1 Sept 2026
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Invocation-Level Reliability of Tool-Using Agents

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arXiv:2608.26189v1 Announce Type: new 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 everythin

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
28 Aug 2026
Agents

Looped Language Models Improve Compositional Tool Calling

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.18171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped language models have shown promising results on reasoning benchmarks, yet their potential for agentic tool use remains largely unexplored. We stu

agentsarxiv-cs-ai
20 Aug 2026
Agents

VC-Tooler: Learning Compositional and Adaptive Visual Tool Use

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.02217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic multimodal reasoning extends passive image understanding by allowing VLMs to actively acquire and refine visual evidence through visual tool int

agentsarxiv-cs-cv
4 Aug 2026
Local Ai

Beyond Zooming: Learning Multi-Tool Visual Reasoning for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing

DGX agent

arXiv:2607.25993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-high-resolution (UHR) remote-sensing (RS) imagery provides fine-grained Earth-observation evidence over city-scale scenes, but poses a fundamental

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv
29 Jul 2026
Safety

Securing Multi-Tool AI Agent Chains With Dynamic, Real-Time Compositional Policies

DGX agent

arXiv:2607.03423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI agent implementations such as frontier coding agents chain multiple tools at runtime that create a security surface that per-tool guardrails

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
7 Jul 2026
Safety

GRAFT: Graph-Tokenized LLMs for Tool Planning

DGX agent

arXiv:2605.11706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to complete complex tasks by selecting and coordinating external tools across multiple steps. This re

safetyarxiv-cs-lg
13 May 2026
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Meta-Tool: Efficient Few-Shot Tool Adaptation for Small Language Models

DGX agent

arXiv:2604.20148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can small language models achieve strong tool-use performance without complex adaptation mechanisms? This paper investigates this question through Met

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
23 Apr 2026
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Visual Reasoning through Tool-supervised Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2604.19945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the problem of how to effectively master tool-use to solve complex visual reasoning tasks for Multimodal Large Language Mo

agentsarxiv-cs-cv
23 Apr 2026
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Masked Diffusion Language Agents for Tool-Integrated Chemical Reasoning

DGX agent

arXiv:2610.13330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing tool-integrated reasoning agent systems for complex chemical tasks remains a fundamental challenge. Although recent chemical agents have demon

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
12 Oct 2026
Safety

ActionGuard: Tool Call Authorization under Poisoned Skills

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.39450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents extend their capabilities through third-party skills that provide task-specific instructions, scripts, and tool-use procedures. Howev

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
1 Oct 2026
Agents

Robot Tool Design from Scratch via Behavior-Aware Hierarchical Optimization

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.35479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to design a tool for a task marks a level of intelligence beyond merely understanding, selecting, or using one. Existing methods for robotic

agentsarxiv-cs-ro
29 Sept 2026
Agents

Improving Proficiency and Efficiency of Android GUI Agents via Self-Generating Tool Actions

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.06792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Android agents using a hybrid action space that combines GUI actions and tool actions (e.g., accessing application data via APIs) remain largely underex

agentsarxiv-cs-ai
10 Sept 2026
Agents

The reach of a verification tool decides its value: A controlled study of verification surface, artifact quality, and cost in AI coding agents

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.28795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern artificial-intelligence coding agents can be equipped with tools for checking their own work e.g. a linter, a boot probe, a shell, a screenshot

agentsarxiv-cs-ai
1 Sept 2026
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Retry, Switch, or Abstain? Learning Strategy-Aware Tool-Use Policies via Controlled Error Injection

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.11977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents are commonly trained and evaluated in environments where tool calls succeed reliably, yet deployed tools can fail transiently, per

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
13 Aug 2026
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Getting the Parameters Right: A Difficulty-Graded Benchmark and Probe-Guided Training for LLM Tool Calls

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.03071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents derive much of their capability from tool use. Existing research on tool use has largely focused on selecting the right tool

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
5 Aug 2026
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CAGE: Certified Authorization under Typed-Return Uncertainty for Tool-Using Agents

DGX agent

arXiv:2607.29190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents act on typed tool returns, records pairing provenance and categorical fields with numerical values. Runtime permission gates gener

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
3 Aug 2026
Safety

Entity Binding Failures in Tool-Augmented Agents

DGX agent

arXiv:2606.30531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented language-model agents are often evaluated by whether they select the correct tool, produce valid API arguments, and complete the requeste

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
30 Jun 2026
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Bidirectional Semantic Complementary Tool Retrieval for Remote Sensing Agents

DGX agent

arXiv:2606.07538v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents provide a novel paradigm for the automated processing of remote sensing(RS) data. Their success in complex RS

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
9 Jun 2026
Safety

NaviAgent: Graph-Driven Bilevel Planning for Scalable Tool Orchestration

DGX agent

arXiv:2506.19500v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly act as function-call agents that invoke external tools to tackle tasks beyond their static knowledge

safetyarxiv-cs-cl
22 May 2026
Agents

To Call or Not to Call: A Framework to Assess and Optimize LLM Tool Calling

DGX agent

arXiv:2605.00737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI architectures augment LLMs with external tools, unlocking strong capabilities. However, tool use is not always beneficial; some calls may be

agentsarxiv-cs-ai
5 May 2026
Safety

PORTool: Importance-Aware Policy Optimization with Rewarded Tree for Multi-Tool-Integrated Reasoning

DGX agent

arXiv:2510.26020v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-tool-integrated reasoning enables LLM-empowered tool-use agents to solve complex tasks by interleaving natural-language reasoning with calls t

safetyarxiv-cs-cl
4 May 2026
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RATED: Reliability-Aware AI Agent Tool Retrieval via Execution Dynamics

DGX agent

arXiv:2610.13889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agents increasingly rely on external tools, accurate retrieval is essential for reliable behavior. Existing methods optimize semantic relevance bu

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
12 Oct 2026
Safety

SimToolReal: An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool Manipulation

DGX agent

arXiv:2602.16863v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ability to manipulate tools significantly expands the set of tasks a robot can perform. Yet, tool manipulation represents a challenging cl

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
7 Oct 2026
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HumanoidToolBench: Benchmarking Humanoid Tool Use from Selection to Mobile Execution

DGX agent

arXiv:2610.02089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As robotic hardware and learning methods advance, humanoids need tools to perform tasks beyond their inherent physical limits. Successful tool use req

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
2 Oct 2026
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ZEBRAARENA: A Diagnostic Simulation Environment for Studying Reasoning-Action Coupling in Tool-Augmented LLMs

DGX agent

arXiv:2603.18614v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) must tightly couple multi-step reasoning with external actions, yet existing benchmarks often confound t

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
15 Sept 2026
Safety

Robustness Analysis of Agentic AI to Inconsistent and Incomplete Tool Responses

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.22676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robustness to a bad tool return means answering it in the way that return calls for, which depends on how the tool went wrong. A tool that has failed an

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
25 Aug 2026
Agents

Continuous Interaction Diffusion: A Diffusion-Native Runtime for Asynchronous Tool-Augmented Reasoning

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.10438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly rely on external tools to access up-to-date information, perform computation, and interact with the outside world. Fo

agentsarxiv-cs-ai
12 Aug 2026
Safety

Intent-Governed Tool Authorization for AI Agents

DGX agent

arXiv:2606.22916v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents increasingly act through external tools: they read private data, construct structured payloads, submit write requests, export records, and

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
28 Jul 2026
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ToolPrivacyBench: Benchmarking Purpose-Bound Privacy in Tool-Using LLM Agents

DGX agent

arXiv:2606.28061v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have increasingly moved from standalone text generation systems to agents that invoke external tools, access environments

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai
29 Jun 2026
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Constraint Tax in Open-Weight LLMs: An Empirical Study of Tool Calling Suppression Under Structured Output Constraints

DGX agent

arXiv:2606.25605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool Calling and Structured Output are two core capabilities of modern Agent systems, yet their interaction under joint deployment conditions remains in

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl
25 Jun 2026
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Tool-Aware Optimization with Entropy Guidance for Efficient Agentic Reinforcement Learning

DGX agent

arXiv:2606.03762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) equips large language models (LLMs) with tool-use capabilities that substantially improve reasoning on complex tas

safetyarxiv-cs-ai
3 Jun 2026
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