From Plan to Action: How Well Do Agents Follow the Plan?

ArXi:2604.12147v1 Announce Type: cross Agents aspire to eliminate the need for task-specific prompt crafting through autonomous reason-act-observe loops. Still, they are commonly instructed to follow a task-specific plan for guidance, e.g., to resolve software issues following phases for navigation, reproduction, patch, and validation. Unfortunately, it is unknown to what extent agents actually follow such instructed plans.