Can agents resolve vague human references like 'the change that broke token refresh'?
yoavgo · x · 2026-09-09
Humans routinely refer to things without naming them — "the change that broke token refresh" or "the issue Amy opened yesterday" — and expect others to follow. Keren Fuchs asks whether agents can do the same: infer what the user means from context and actually locate the right item using their tools.
It's a novel angle on combining reference resolution with tool use as a measure of practical agent capability.
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