{
  "id": 4459,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12233v1",
  "title": "No More, No Less: Task Alignment in Terminal Agents",
  "summary": "Terminal agents are increasingly capable of executing complex, long-horizon tasks autonomously from a single user prompt. To do so, they must interpret instructions encountered in the environment (e.g., README files, code comments, stack traces) and determine their relevance to the task. This creates a fundamental challenge: relevant cues must be followed to complete a task, whereas irrelevant or misleading ones must be ignored. Existing benchmarks do not capture this ability. An agent may appea",
  "authors": "Sina Mavali, David Pape, Jonathan Evertz, Samira Abedini, Devansh Srivastav, Thorsten Eisenhofer et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-12T15:06:15.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:30:59.239Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4459",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12233v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}