Safe and Scalable Web Agent Learning via Recreated Websites
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Web, search, and research agents
Abstract (arXiv)
Training autonomous web agents is fundamentally limited by the environments they learn from: real-world websites are unsafe to explore, hard to reset, and rarely provide verifiable feedback. We propose VeriEnv, a framework that treats language models as environment creators, automatically cloning real-world websites into fully executable, verifiable synthetic environments. By exposing controlled internal access via a Python SDK, VeriEnv enables agents to self-generate tasks with deterministic, programmatically verifiable rewards, eliminating reliance on heuristic or LLM-based judges. This design decouples agent learning from unsafe real-world interaction while enabling scalable self-evolution through environment expansion. Through experiments on web agent benchmarks, we show that agents trained with VeriEnv generalize to unseen websites, achieve site-specific mastery through self-evolving training, and benefit from scaling the number of training environments. Code and resources will be released at https://github.com/kyle8581/VeriEnv upon acceptance.
Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Web, search, and research agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 34 of its 41 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 11 Mar 2026.
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