agent/papers/items/2026-2604-12986-parallax-why-ai-agents-that-think-must-never-act.md

Paper: Parallax: Why AI Agents That Think Must Never Act

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type: paper title: "Parallax: Why AI Agents That Think Must Never Act" authors: Joel Fokou year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12986 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-04-14 updated_at: 2026-04-14 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• agent-evaluation
• agent-safety
• reasoning
• tool-use
• workflow-agent methods:

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• cs.CR
• cs.AI related_concepts:

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collection_score: 15 collection_queries: agent-safety

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: agent-safety
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, agent-safety, reasoning, tool-use, workflow-agent
• arXiv categories: cs.CR, cs.AI
• collection score: 15

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12986