测试智能体在无文档环境下通过试错发现工具行为的能力
ScrambleToolBench: Agents Search Exhaustively Even When Their Own Map Points to the Next Step

- 构建动态终端环境,移除语义线索强制试错探索
- 多数模型无法适应环境变化,仍依赖盲目搜索而非推理
- 适合研究具身智能与鲁棒推理的开发者和研究人员
为在开放世界中稳健运行,自主智能体需仅通过交互就推断陌生系统的行为,即使缺乏文档支持。然而现有工具使用基准在静态环境中暴露语义工具模式,使智能体可依赖先验知识而非自主发现。为此,我们提出ScrambleToolBench,一个交互式终端基准,旨在隔离行为推理能力。通过移除语义线索并施加连续任务课程,该基准要求智能体完全通过试错揭示隐藏工具行为。基准还引入动态挑战,包括映射漂移、随机动作失败和时间执行窗口,以评估智能体在环境变化时是否能修正与调整假设。对最先进语言模型的评估显示,初始成功发现行为并不意味着具备鲁棒适应能力。面对结构变化如映射漂移时,智能体无法采用循环追踪等演绎策略,反而表现出信念惯性或回归穷举搜索。增加测试时推理只会放大这种高成本的暴力搜索,而非实现演绎恢复。尽管持久记忆可减少误差累积,智能体仍无法高效推断结构变化,凸显当前智能体推理能力的显著差距。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
To operate robustly in open-world environments, autonomous agents should be able to infer the behavior of unfamiliar systems through interaction alone, even in the absence of documentation. However, existing tool-use benchmarks expose semantic tool schemas in static environments, allowing agents to rely on prior knowledge rather than autonomous discovery. To address this limitation, we introduce ScrambleToolBench, an interactive terminal benchmark designed to isolate behavioral reasoning. By removing semantic cues and enforcing a continuous task curriculum, the benchmark requires agents to uncover hidden tool behaviors entirely through trial-and-error interaction. The benchmark further introduces dynamic challenges, including mapping drift, stochastic action failures, and temporal execution windows, to evaluate whether agents can revise and adapt their hypotheses as the environment changes. Our evaluation of state-of-the-art language models reveals that successful initial discovery does not translate into robust adaptation. When faced with structural changes such as mapping drift, agents fail to use deductive strategies such as cycle tracing, and instead exhibit belief inertia or fall back to exhaustive search. Increasing test-time reasoning only amplifies this expensive brute-force search rather than enabling deductive recovery. While equipping agents with persistent memory reduces compounding errors, they remain unable to efficiently infer structural changes, highlighting a gap in current agent reasoning.
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