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Toward User-Conditioned Evaluation of Personal LLM Agents under Temporal Interventions

arXiv 2607.21635 ↗First posted 20 Jul 2026cs.LGcited by 1

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Agent memory systems

Abstract (arXiv)

Personal agents maintain memories, learned skills, tool configurations, and policy state that evolve with each user. Existing agent benchmarks often evaluate these capabilities in isolation: tool benchmarks test invocation under fixed APIs, memory benchmarks test recall or forgetting, and safety benchmarks test static policy compliance. We argue that personal-agent evaluation requires a different protocol: replaying the same temporal intervention across different persistent user-conditioned states and measuring how failures propagate across agent components. We formalize this requirement as four conditions: explicit temporal intervention, persistent state across the intervention, induced cross-dimensional effects, and variation in user-conditioned state. A focused audit of public benchmark protocols selected by explicit inclusion criteria identifies several close cases. Under our explicitly narrow operationalization, we did not find a protocol in that audited set satisfying all four conditions. This claim is scoped as a focused gap analysis with bounded literature coverage. This position paper proposes a minimal benchmark design and candidate reporting metrics for user-conditioned adaptation. The result is a concrete design requirement for future personal-agent evaluation, with metrics used as reporting tools for that requirement.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Agent memory systems, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 38 of its 67 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 20 Jul 2026.

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