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Paper: Hell or High Water: Evaluating Agentic Recovery from External Failures

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type: paper title: "Hell or High Water: Evaluating Agentic Recovery from External Failures" authors: Andrew Wang, Sophia Hager, Adi Asija, Daniel Khashabi, Nicholas Andrews year: 2025 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11027 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2025-08-14 updated_at: 2025-08-14 status: queued relevance: high topics:

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

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collection_score: 16 collection_queries: function-calling

One-line Takeaway

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

Why Collected

• matched queries: function-calling
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, planning, tool-use, workflow-agent
• arXiv categories: cs.CL
• collection score: 16

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/2508.11027