AI RESEARCH
Ask Early, Ask Late, Ask Right: When Does Clarification Timing Matter for Long-Horizon Agents?
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.07937v1 Announce Type: new Long-horizon AI agents execute complex workflows spanning hundreds of sequential actions, yet a single wrong assumption early on can cascade into irreversible errors. When instructions are incomplete, the agent must decide not only whether to ask for clarification but when, and no prior work measures how clarification value changes over the