Research paper examining whether tool use in web agents provides expected benefits or represents an overestimated capability. Challenges conventional assumptions about agent architecture and tool integration effectiveness.
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The Tool Illusion: Rethinking Tool Use in Web Agents
ArXiv research challenges the conventional assumption that tool use improves web agents, questioning whether integration complexity actually delivers expected capability gains.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: arXiv CS.CL (Computation & Language)BY sys://pipeline
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