agent/papers/items/2026-2606-25819-beyond-function-calling-benchmarking-tool-using-agents-under-tool-environment-un.md

Paper: Beyond Function Calling: Benchmarking Tool-Using Agents under Tool-Environment Unreliability

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type: paper title: "Beyond Function Calling: Benchmarking Tool-Using Agents under Tool-Environment Unreliability" authors: Yang Tian, Zhengpeng Shi, Yu Zhou, Bo Zhao year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25819 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-06-24 updated_at: 2026-06-27 status: queued relevance: high topics:

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

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• cs.CL
• cs.SE related_concepts:

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collection_score: 15 collection_queries: function-calling, tool-use

One-line Takeaway

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

Why Collected

• matched queries: function-calling, tool-use
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, tool-use, workflow-agent
• arXiv categories: cs.CL, cs.SE
• 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/2606.25819