{
  "id": 19301764,
  "title": "AutoBuddy: Evaluating Proactive, Always-On Agents on Task Discovery and Execution in a Simulated Workplace",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/autobuddy-evaluating-proactive-always-on-agents-on-task-discovery-and",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-09T13:30:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.12393v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "As LLM agents become more autonomous, they are increasingly expected to run as always-on assistants on a user's behalf, identifying work to be done and completing it without being asked. Yet existing benchmarks usually give the agent its task, whereas in knowledge work the requests sit in the user's workspace and the agent must first recognise which obligations exist. We study proactive task…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}