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The Backdrop Exposes What the World Around an Agent Costs It

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arXiv:2609.38469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent benchmarks test agents in worlds that stay still. Deployed agents work in worlds that other people also change. Someone texts the agent to send the money elsewhere or an order confirmation asks it to reply with a door code. We present BACKDROP,…

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  1. 2026-10-01 04:00 · arXiv cs.CL
    The Backdrop Exposes What the World Around an Agent Costs It

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