AI RESEARCH
No More, No Less: Task Alignment in Terminal Agents
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.12233v1 Announce Type: cross Terminal agents are increasingly capable of executing complex, long-horizon tasks autonomously from a single user prompt. To do so, they must interpret instructions encountered in the environment (e.g., README files, code comments, stack traces) and determine their relevance to the task. This creates a fundamental challenge: relevant cues must be followed to complete a task, whereas irrelevant or misleading ones must be ignored. Existing benchmarks do not capture this ability.